The think pad has the same style for about 20 years now. Yes there were tweaks here and there slimmer lighter... But still the black dull matted plastic shape. I am happy the Lenovo Tablet follows that design. Businesses don't want noticly fancy they want the borring drab color system so they can look really good with it.
Having 1 monitor for a laptop is good, and allowing for external monitors to be hooked up is ideal. If you are at your desk and ready to get real work done you hook up your external displays, and you good. Otherwise you are either on the move or in some location where you probably just need to do some quick tasks where one display is sufficient.
Most of the Rich Work quite hard and make a lot of sacrifices during their life to get rich. You make it sound like it is an easy thing to obtain. Being born in a rich family helps a little bit but it isn't a guarantee. There are a lot of stories of the Self made man, who just got sick of being poor and then rose to become rich.
They didn't want to live like they are poor and wanted more services in life so they worked to become rich.
I have worked with Rich People and they work very hard. I have worked with poor people who say they are working very hard, and they are not, they may be tiring themselfs out but they are not working hard.
Perhaps the rich should just get less services....
The problem is these services are so complex only the Rich have resources to use them.
I remember in my state there was a new service for Small Businesses to give some discounts for training. At the time I worked for a small company (5 employees) we spent a day filling out the paper work only to get it rejected because the training had to be in state. So we then had to fine training available in State then it was rejected because our reasons for such training wasn't fully valid... We never got to do the training. But our competitors who were bigger then us did because they can afford to have people do all the paperwork and spend hours on the phone knowing all the details.
Remember this when you think those Republicans are just out to protect the rich when they get rid of all these services, when those Democrats make those services so complex that only the rich can access them.
Research doesn't drive bubbles, it drives new markets. Bubbles are over investments on current markets, in an attempt to get rich quick.
Once we get rid of the Get Rich Quick and live modestly like it was back in the 50's then things can get better. But we can't do it like the Rules of the 1950's are still valid today. We need new Liberal Rules, however for these Liberal Rules to succeed we need conservative minded people to make sure they are not exploited.
The problem is a Rift between companies who can fund their research and the Scientific community.
A lot of companies would like to put money into R&D however the Scientific community tends to shun Private Enterprise as the evil daemon. Especially when they ask what could this research be used for they go into so prerecorded rant about how Science isn't about making money it is just about learning more about the universe...
For a lot of this stuff they can say. "Smaller Faster Computer Chips", "Possible new energy source", "Next Generation of Weapon" and they will get their funding. They may have to do some less theoretical research as part of the job, but that is no difference then a professor having to teach some undergrad snots an intro courses just so you can continue your real research.
But over the years There has been a growing Rift between Academics/Scientist and Private Enterprise, and it is mostly just due to some crazy political mumbojumbo on both sides more then any real problems. My guess this Rift started back in the 1960's where colleges became refugee locations for kids who didn't want to go to war, and many of them with their strict political beliefs stayed there, and created the rift from universities and the outside world.
Most of our classic religions are rooted back in the days where human population was Low, perhaps dangerously low. So either a higher power, or just some intelligent people came with a code of ethics to follow that will help keep the human population going... A lot of religions classic Immoral acts are focused around keeping human animal nature controlled so a safe and expanding their civilization can continue. It worked, too well. We now need a new moral system which allows for sustained continuation of our population without much more over population.
If it wasn't for the fact that most System Administrators are more comfortable with Linux or Windows (And many of the new ones are not too willing to expand that much on the command line). I would have all my servers running OpenBSD. You get it set it up to do the Job you want and let it work.
And payback will be a bitch. There is a problem with this eye for an eye mentality. It will come back to bite you back.
Fine the CIA and FBI cannot find the people.... But a team of unethical reporters I am surprised they haven't knocked on the guys door yet to give him a well edited interview.
For a simple reason it isn't installed by default. Security isn't convenient. The best security tools make your experience seem like you are warden of a jail house. There is only so much you can do to make them easy. The rest the company will decide not to add because it will make the app too hard to use. Especially if you need to compete with Internet Explorer. Where you need to be more secure and show that it can run all the stuff that IE can.
Their success wasn't selling books it was proving a good experience to the customer enough to make them feel guilty for staying there and reading their book and buying high revenue coffee or a calendar, and movies, CDs or some other trinket. Sure they made a profit selling books but that wasn't their bread and butter. So they pushed more towards non-book materiel, . They took the books out which was their primary drawing point to make more room for selling the profitable stuff, and removed the factor on keeping people in the store, thus less came in and looked around creating a downward spiral.
We can look back with 20/20 hindsight but at the time it looked like people are not interested in book but the other medias if you looked at the sales. But the truth is people are interested in the books but not to buy them. but it kept them in the stores to buy the impulse items. And there is a very detailed balance to make there.
the iPhone is fairly solid state, Not to many buttons the only real moving part is the vibrate.All the parts are packaged quite tightly. So yes it can survive a fall from a skydivers pocket. The droids may too... However many of them are using molded and glued/snapped in plastic cases, which could break a lot easier spreading parts around. The iPhone is mostly steel and glass so for most cases the glass will break but the parts should still work...
as an iPhone owner it is a no big deal. There are higher end droids that can survive the fall too.
Up here most houses have a rather steep incline to the roofs preventing these dams. Plus I'd you Home is correctly insolated the snow on top melts first then the bottom. You know when a house is poorly insolated you just look of icicles.
Did you expect anything different. News corp has been trying to make everyone believe there is a LiBrAl CoNsPeRcY going on. When you have a bunch of hackers directing their attacts at conservative sources, it proves their point and strengthens their resolve. This type hacking crap helps no one, and makes the problem worse.
That and you got real-life forces getting in the way. We hope for a Star Trek type utopia where Tech will solve all our human problems... It doesn't and it won't. I could see the Religious people fighting tooth and nail against the use of the Transporter, in bitter arguments for hundreds of year. I can see the Holodeck being a Red Light district of technology, perhaps leading to a population drop, or a bunch of people being hopelessly unproductive in them. Every time you go to a new planet there will be millions of microbes that think you are the newest candy, or you spread a microbe that wipes out a population.
I stated nothing about OS/2 Technical Quality (I actually never used that OS thus I said nothing about quality, just the perception of the overall market), It was only about IBM failure in marketing.
If federal government is anything like New York state I would agree (I would expect the feds to be even more so) While there are rules around to prefer small and minority own businesses, their policies make it impossible for such groups to put their foot in the door. And don't blame just the Republicans or the Democrats they both added to the mess.
1. Open bidding isn't anything like an open bid. They take the resumes and profiles of companies they want to use and create a bid so only such company can win, the bid. You will see odd things in the bids like 10 years FORTRAN experience required or 4 Years networking experiences for doing a VB6 to.NET conversion job.
2. The company often makes the bid. Employees actually have little time to make a bid so a few companies may propose bids for them to put out. Then they choose which one the like and bid them out.
3. Expensive requirements, companies need a large line of credit open to show proof that they are not overnight operations... However such line of credit hurts the small business.
4. If you are in, then you stay in. One you got your foot in the door you will never leave unless you really really mess up.
You sound like a college professor, who has a hard time believing your area of study isn't interesting to all your students. For most college classes text books are an expensive and near useless expense, Especially for those Undergrad required courses that the student needs the book for the class then never uses it again... Some students never even use the book during class as they learn better by hearing the lectures vs. from reading a book. Many college books are introduction based books so after they take the class and advanced to the next ones the content of the intro book is so basic that it is useless now.
Sure some books a student should keep but not all of them. And if you are going to Pay $150.00 for a text book where during the class you have read 3 chapters in it. (50 pages) on a topic that you are not interested in but needed to take the class to graduate. Then have a choice of selling that book back for $15.00 or just being able to rent the book for even $50.00 for the semester you may be better off. In a classroom of 100 students (who will pass the class). 1 or 2 is so interested in the topic that they will love the book and read it front to back and keep it for it has enlighten so. 20 will read the requested readings and have useful notes on it, 20 will have done the requested reading, 40 will do the required readings just because it will be on the test, and rest will pick out info they need for the test and bluff the rest.
I fear OS/2 was a failure for the desktop as soon as they did the Adds for OS/2 Warp. A bunch of people staring at a computer screen saying how cool it is then showing some funky color like they are on an acid trip. Most people at the time didn't know what an OS was they figured that once you turn on your PC you go to DOS prompt... then there were GUI enhancements like Windows 3.1. Earlier versions of OS/2 were the same way... seeming just a shell on top of DOS. So OS/2 Warp just an another expensive DOS Shell, that ran DOS Slower and all those newly available windows apps wouldn't all run at 100%.
When Microsoft released Windows 95 at nearly the same time, they did what apple does now. Show the product, show them how to use it, make it seem so much easier then before and what the other guys do. So when people got windows 95 they knew what it was and what it was going to do.
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The think pad has the same style for about 20 years now. Yes there were tweaks here and there slimmer lighter... But still the black dull matted plastic shape. I am happy the Lenovo Tablet follows that design.
Businesses don't want noticly fancy they want the borring drab color system so they can look really good with it.
Having 1 monitor for a laptop is good, and allowing for external monitors to be hooked up is ideal. If you are at your desk and ready to get real work done you hook up your external displays, and you good. Otherwise you are either on the move or in some location where you probably just need to do some quick tasks where one display is sufficient.
Most of the Rich Work quite hard and make a lot of sacrifices during their life to get rich. You make it sound like it is an easy thing to obtain. Being born in a rich family helps a little bit but it isn't a guarantee. There are a lot of stories of the Self made man, who just got sick of being poor and then rose to become rich.
They didn't want to live like they are poor and wanted more services in life so they worked to become rich.
I have worked with Rich People and they work very hard. I have worked with poor people who say they are working very hard, and they are not, they may be tiring themselfs out but they are not working hard.
Perhaps the rich should just get less services....
The problem is these services are so complex only the Rich have resources to use them.
I remember in my state there was a new service for Small Businesses to give some discounts for training. At the time I worked for a small company (5 employees) we spent a day filling out the paper work only to get it rejected because the training had to be in state. So we then had to fine training available in State then it was rejected because our reasons for such training wasn't fully valid... We never got to do the training. But our competitors who were bigger then us did because they can afford to have people do all the paperwork and spend hours on the phone knowing all the details.
Remember this when you think those Republicans are just out to protect the rich when they get rid of all these services, when those Democrats make those services so complex that only the rich can access them.
Research doesn't drive bubbles, it drives new markets. Bubbles are over investments on current markets, in an attempt to get rich quick.
Once we get rid of the Get Rich Quick and live modestly like it was back in the 50's then things can get better. But we can't do it like the Rules of the 1950's are still valid today.
We need new Liberal Rules, however for these Liberal Rules to succeed we need conservative minded people to make sure they are not exploited.
The problem is a Rift between companies who can fund their research and the Scientific community.
A lot of companies would like to put money into R&D however the Scientific community tends to shun Private Enterprise as the evil daemon. Especially when they ask what could this research be used for they go into so prerecorded rant about how Science isn't about making money it is just about learning more about the universe...
For a lot of this stuff they can say. "Smaller Faster Computer Chips", "Possible new energy source", "Next Generation of Weapon" and they will get their funding. They may have to do some less theoretical research as part of the job, but that is no difference then a professor having to teach some undergrad snots an intro courses just so you can continue your real research.
But over the years There has been a growing Rift between Academics/Scientist and Private Enterprise, and it is mostly just due to some crazy political mumbojumbo on both sides more then any real problems.
My guess this Rift started back in the 1960's where colleges became refugee locations for kids who didn't want to go to war, and many of them with their strict political beliefs stayed there, and created the rift from universities and the outside world.
Most of our classic religions are rooted back in the days where human population was Low, perhaps dangerously low. So either a higher power, or just some intelligent people came with a code of ethics to follow that will help keep the human population going... A lot of religions classic Immoral acts are focused around keeping human animal nature controlled so a safe and expanding their civilization can continue.
It worked, too well.
We now need a new moral system which allows for sustained continuation of our population without much more over population.
If it wasn't for the fact that most System Administrators are more comfortable with Linux or Windows (And many of the new ones are not too willing to expand that much on the command line). I would have all my servers running OpenBSD. You get it set it up to do the Job you want and let it work.
I thought he taught us don't mess with robots when we live a Utopian life. Hey Fat Dumb and Happy isn't a bad life.
And payback will be a bitch.
There is a problem with this eye for an eye mentality. It will come back to bite you back.
Fine the CIA and FBI cannot find the people.... But a team of unethical reporters I am surprised they haven't knocked on the guys door yet to give him a well edited interview.
For a simple reason it isn't installed by default.
Security isn't convenient.
The best security tools make your experience seem like you are warden of a jail house. There is only so much you can do to make them easy. The rest the company will decide not to add because it will make the app too hard to use. Especially if you need to compete with Internet Explorer. Where you need to be more secure and show that it can run all the stuff that IE can.
Their success wasn't selling books it was proving a good experience to the customer enough to make them feel guilty for staying there and reading their book and buying high revenue coffee or a calendar, and movies, CDs or some other trinket. Sure they made a profit selling books but that wasn't their bread and butter. So they pushed more towards non-book materiel, . They took the books out which was their primary drawing point to make more room for selling the profitable stuff, and removed the factor on keeping people in the store, thus less came in and looked around creating a downward spiral.
We can look back with 20/20 hindsight but at the time it looked like people are not interested in book but the other medias if you looked at the sales. But the truth is people are interested in the books but not to buy them. but it kept them in the stores to buy the impulse items. And there is a very detailed balance to make there.
the iPhone is fairly solid state, Not to many buttons the only real moving part is the vibrate.All the parts are packaged quite tightly. So yes it can survive a fall from a skydivers pocket. The droids may too... However many of them are using molded and glued/snapped in plastic cases, which could break a lot easier spreading parts around. The iPhone is mostly steel and glass so for most cases the glass will break but the parts should still work...
as an iPhone owner it is a no big deal. There are higher end droids that can survive the fall too.
Up here most houses have a rather steep incline to the roofs preventing these dams. Plus I'd you Home is correctly insolated the snow on top melts first then the bottom. You know when a house is poorly insolated you just look of icicles.
Did you expect anything different. News corp has been trying to make everyone believe there is a LiBrAl CoNsPeRcY going on. When you have a bunch of hackers directing their attacts at conservative sources, it proves their point and strengthens their resolve.
This type hacking crap helps no one, and makes the problem worse.
That and you got real-life forces getting in the way. We hope for a Star Trek type utopia where Tech will solve all our human problems... It doesn't and it won't.
I could see the Religious people fighting tooth and nail against the use of the Transporter, in bitter arguments for hundreds of year. I can see the Holodeck being a Red Light district of technology, perhaps leading to a population drop, or a bunch of people being hopelessly unproductive in them. Every time you go to a new planet there will be millions of microbes that think you are the newest candy, or you spread a microbe that wipes out a population.
The future is like that toy you always wanted as a kid, once you get it, it is not quite like how you hoped it would be.
Flying car. Where are my Flying cars!!!!
Non of this prototype stuff I need a real mass produced and commonly used flying car.
Do you read before you quote and post?
I stated nothing about OS/2 Technical Quality (I actually never used that OS thus I said nothing about quality, just the perception of the overall market), It was only about IBM failure in marketing.
Except for the fact during winter your roof is covered with hopefully white snow.
The Republicans favor the rich.
The Democrats create law so complex that only the rich have the resources to follow.
If federal government is anything like New York state I would agree (I would expect the feds to be even more so)
While there are rules around to prefer small and minority own businesses, their policies make it impossible for such groups to put their foot in the door. And don't blame just the Republicans or the Democrats they both added to the mess.
1. Open bidding isn't anything like an open bid. They take the resumes and profiles of companies they want to use and create a bid so only such company can win, the bid. You will see odd things in the bids like 10 years FORTRAN experience required or 4 Years networking experiences for doing a VB6 to .NET conversion job.
2. The company often makes the bid. Employees actually have little time to make a bid so a few companies may propose bids for them to put out. Then they choose which one the like and bid them out.
3. Expensive requirements, companies need a large line of credit open to show proof that they are not overnight operations... However such line of credit hurts the small business.
4. If you are in, then you stay in. One you got your foot in the door you will never leave unless you really really mess up.
You sound like a college professor, who has a hard time believing your area of study isn't interesting to all your students.
For most college classes text books are an expensive and near useless expense, Especially for those Undergrad required courses that the student needs the book for the class then never uses it again... Some students never even use the book during class as they learn better by hearing the lectures vs. from reading a book.
Many college books are introduction based books so after they take the class and advanced to the next ones the content of the intro book is so basic that it is useless now.
Sure some books a student should keep but not all of them. And if you are going to Pay $150.00 for a text book where during the class you have read 3 chapters in it. (50 pages) on a topic that you are not interested in but needed to take the class to graduate. Then have a choice of selling that book back for $15.00 or just being able to rent the book for even $50.00 for the semester you may be better off.
In a classroom of 100 students (who will pass the class). 1 or 2 is so interested in the topic that they will love the book and read it front to back and keep it for it has enlighten so. 20 will read the requested readings and have useful notes on it, 20 will have done the requested reading, 40 will do the required readings just because it will be on the test, and rest will pick out info they need for the test and bluff the rest.
I fear OS/2 was a failure for the desktop as soon as they did the Adds for OS/2 Warp. A bunch of people staring at a computer screen saying how cool it is then showing some funky color like they are on an acid trip. Most people at the time didn't know what an OS was they figured that once you turn on your PC you go to DOS prompt... then there were GUI enhancements like Windows 3.1. Earlier versions of OS/2 were the same way... seeming just a shell on top of DOS. So OS/2 Warp just an another expensive DOS Shell, that ran DOS Slower and all those newly available windows apps wouldn't all run at 100%.
When Microsoft released Windows 95 at nearly the same time, they did what apple does now. Show the product, show them how to use it, make it seem so much easier then before and what the other guys do. So when people got windows 95 they knew what it was and what it was going to do.
That is the rule of the internet. Just remember about 1/2 of the population has below average intelligence.