If my uncle bought a painting in U.S. and ask my talented cousin to replicate the painting. After that, my uncle bring the replicated painting from U.S. to England through airplane. The airplane sold a ticket to my uncle, so he has the right to travel and carry whatever with him. And when my uncle get caught in England, the law will fine the airline company?
I guess Internet is really a strange place.
I think cities should install moving highway. I always believe a moving highway is always going to be more energy efficient than thousands of moving cars.
I am a programmer. There are different skilled level of programmer. Let me break it down, then you can think of a way to identify them during interview.
1. Programmer who can solve simple problems.
2. Programmer who can solve hard problems.
3. Programmer who can solve very hard problems.
4. Programmer who can solve hard problems and recognize the root of the problem.
5. Programmer who acknowledge the root of the problem and brave enough to determine that the root problem must be solved.
6. Programmer who acknowledge the root of the problem, brave enough to determine that the root problem must be solved, and smart enough to know what the solution is.
7. Programmer who acknowledge the root of the problem, brave enough to determine that the root problem must be solved, smart enough to know what the solution is, and hard work enough to actually solve the problem for the good of the company.
You just need to find a way to identify these different type of programmer.
I think Government / User should start thinking Internet as "Road" in real life. It should be a government's job to make sure the road is good, and free for everyone (from tax). No private company should dictate how many time you can walk on the "Road" (Internet) and how popular you're (such as Youtube). If that's the case, then New York City should start charging all retail store or company that attract so much tourist into Manhattan for the "Road" that they maintains.
Why can't we have multiple reading head spinning media to increase access speed and reduce spinning = reduce energy cost & reduce the chance of damage.
For example, instead of a single harddrive arm, we have 2 or 3, same for optical device.
The fall of all gaming phone device is they're missing App Store, the creativity of new game that works on phone platform. After opening up the App store, it allows greater creativity. That means more great game on the phone. Just like how come plam is never a great gaming platform with the stylus, but it works out on the Nintendo DS.
This is exactly my idea about making browser have standard major module. Where user can pick their javascript engine, render engine, and other addon. And all browser provide is a shell that host those information together. Allow user to manage those parts easily. And provides an env where those modules can communicate with each other efficiently. Obviously browser also have to manage these modules, so they don't eat each other, provide a safe env for each module, so that they have enough resource to do their job. And make sure they don't take too much resource to slow down the whole machine...
There's all kind of problem in browsers. I think the only safe way to browse the web is to create a virtual machine, then run the browser within the virtual machine, so if anything bad happens, just replace the virtual machine, then you're good again. Why can't someone think of a way to built a tiny virtual machine within browser, The virtual machine should only apply functionality that a browser ever needed. Then if anything bad happens, just roll back to the original backup of the virtual machine. It's a like a browser contains a virtual machine that run the browser which contains it.
Why couldn't Pandora invest on a couple of solar panel. Have the solar panel generate power, sell the electricity, and use that money to pay for the music? So we all have endless supply of free music. Problem solved.
I totally agree, I think the next step Google will take is to hire reporters and start their own e-news branch. So they have their own content. They can start hiring all the reporters that are fired from the newspaper company.
I totally agree, but even thou American products can be easily recreated at no cost, but the American product quality is hardly recreated by the Chinese. I haven't seen any Chinese product that has the same quality as the old American products. I think American should open their factories again and compete with Chinese factories. Even the product might costs a little more, but MADE IN USA still give people the impression of higher quality product. And I *LOVE* MADE IN USA high quality product!
I second to that. You cannot check out the real product in-store is a big minus to online-store. And people who buy their stuff online take advantage of BB. I think in the future, Online store should open some "retail" store to "display" product. That way, it's a more fair game. You can go to those "display" store, check out the product. Then purchase online, and they will ship the product to you in 2-3 days. Therefore all the "display" store is a lot smaller, and it could use the rest of the "inventory" space as "display" and be able to display even more variety of products. It's like hybrid model, I would say.
I read the article about low price of killer app. I think Apple should come up with additional payment method. Now iPhone App still sell as a "product", there's no "service" App yet. But I think people might not like the idea of "service" app. Therefore I think, we should find the middle ground, call it "lease", you pay a small amount and get a full functional program. Every day you use it, App store deduct a small amount from your account. User should be able to choose the amount range from 1 cent a day to $10 a day. So if the user would like to keep the app, they continue to use it and pay the "lease" amount, until the "lease" has been match the "product" price. There might be some interest involve. So people can test full functional software without paying the premium in front. And developer can still get their portion of the money if the user really like the app and would like to use it and keep it for a while. Of course, if the user decided the app is not good, they can just remove the app, and the app store stop the lease payment... I hope my idea will be applied to app store evey where.
I have been talking about this since the last discussion on browser technology. We should have a browser that's plug-n-play friendly, which allow us to choose our favorite render engine, our favorite javascript engine, and the browser just somehow link them together. This give the user the choice and be free from a specific flavor, and be able to choose from the best of the best, and not like, i can have the best rendering engine but not the best javascript engine, or the best css engine and not the best javascript engine. Last time when I bring this up, everyone is like why.. I think this browser is very close to what I wanted.. CHOICE!
I think the Chinese government is trying to say... "Your (Microsoft) software is so good and so expensive, it's monopolize our pirate market. No one is buying any Linux software in our pirate market." LOL
I had this idea, when I was using IE6. I saw IE6 doesn't handle CSS2 as well as firefox does. Therefore I always think about how nice if IE6 allow a CSS interpreter plug-in function, so I can just grab the firefox CSS2 interpreter and plug it in to IE6, so i can continue to use IE6. IE6 is just an example I use here. My point is to give customer more choice and let customer's power to influence how each module should evolve. Instead of packaging everything into a single package where customer must accept everything that come with the package without a choice. My other example would be... if I buy a desktop computer set, but I hate the basic video card that come with the desktop. Everything else inside the computer set is great. Should I suffer and settle down with the basic video card? Or should I be able to choose the best video card in the market and plug into the computer. This way will stimulate the grow of better module (better graphic card... ) because there's a demand.
I think all the future web browser should have a standard javascript and CSS, plug-and-play function, allowing users to choose their favorite javascript interpreter and CSS interpreter. For instance, I like Safari's javascript interpreter, but firefox CSS interpreter.. then I can just get those plug-in and put it in my browser (which have a built in HTML interpreter.)
Just enough CPU power for word processing and web browsing (of course tweaking the OS to optimize the CPU usage would help a lot, such as a customize Linux for the EEE). A lot of battery life (either increase battery size, or improve battery consumption). More screen space without increasing the laptop size. I wish a dual LCD monitor with 10' each. (7' or 9.8' are too small). The location of the second LCD should be located underneath the keyboard. And the regular LCD should be able to flip over like a tablet pc. Once it's flip backward. It can combine/joined the LCD screen with the screen that's underneath the keyboard and form a 12-14' LCD touch tablet screen (without keyboard). If it's not combined/joined, the dual screen will look like a book, for great ebook reading machine. Of course, you can always turn the screen back to the front and use it as a laptop with only 1 LCD turn on. That would be my perfect machine. 1Gb memory and a SDHC slot with a small but "fast" harddrive is all I needed.
In conclusion:
1.5GHz CPU
1G RAM
fast harddrive 7200RPM or SSD
small enough to host OS and app
SDHC for portable data
dual small screen (possible touch screen, when it's used without keyboard) and should be able to combine to form 1 big screen.
put as much battery life as my 3.5-4lb limit permitted. (don't mind if it make the machine a little heavier, but still 3.5-4lb.)
Every company tech or not are going green. They all try to come up with some kind of product that related to green. If Apple were to come up with a green computer or gadget, they could easily just use "Green Apple" to market their new green product line. If that is the case, they definitely need to do something regarding this logo. So their future "Green Apple" line won't get mix up with this green NYC logo. Possible? Maybe..
IMO, only 10%-15% of students can study independently, they're smart/hardworking. But the end result is, they understand the subject at the end by attending class, reading text book and doing the homework. For the rest of the students, 90%-85%, they don't understand the material totally. Only a few percent within that group actually want to honestly learn the technique by learning. The majority of the students, they just want to get by, by finishing the homework and get grade and pass the course. This is the different between a "learner" and a "student" in my definition. My definition of a "learner" is who would like to learn the technique understand it and apply it, regardless at the end if he/she get a good grade or not, but he/she retain the technique that they learn. My definition of a "student" is create by the grading system that the school created. They ("student") only cares about grade and passing the course. They will do anything to get grade and pass the course without really care about obtaining the technique or care about retaining the technique. So IMO, if a "learner" would use the collaboration technique to obtain knowledge, that is just to me. But if a "student" would use the collaboration technique to just pass the class or get good grade, that's not just. However, our society happens to need both type of people. People who love knowledge and become scientist or engineer. Or people just like to get things done... Both type of people need to pass the University and get a college degree.
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If my uncle bought a painting in U.S. and ask my talented cousin to replicate the painting. After that, my uncle bring the replicated painting from U.S. to England through airplane. The airplane sold a ticket to my uncle, so he has the right to travel and carry whatever with him. And when my uncle get caught in England, the law will fine the airline company? I guess Internet is really a strange place.
If Microsoft release XBOX os for free, so anyone can turn their PC into XBOX, wouldn't that be a simple solution?
I think cities should install moving highway. I always believe a moving highway is always going to be more energy efficient than thousands of moving cars.
Another news: pcie to pci adapter sell like hot cake since 6/23/2010. http://www.beaglesoft.com/pcie2pci.htm
I am a programmer. There are different skilled level of programmer. Let me break it down, then you can think of a way to identify them during interview. 1. Programmer who can solve simple problems. 2. Programmer who can solve hard problems. 3. Programmer who can solve very hard problems. 4. Programmer who can solve hard problems and recognize the root of the problem. 5. Programmer who acknowledge the root of the problem and brave enough to determine that the root problem must be solved. 6. Programmer who acknowledge the root of the problem, brave enough to determine that the root problem must be solved, and smart enough to know what the solution is. 7. Programmer who acknowledge the root of the problem, brave enough to determine that the root problem must be solved, smart enough to know what the solution is, and hard work enough to actually solve the problem for the good of the company. You just need to find a way to identify these different type of programmer.
I think Government / User should start thinking Internet as "Road" in real life. It should be a government's job to make sure the road is good, and free for everyone (from tax). No private company should dictate how many time you can walk on the "Road" (Internet) and how popular you're (such as Youtube). If that's the case, then New York City should start charging all retail store or company that attract so much tourist into Manhattan for the "Road" that they maintains.
Why can't we have multiple reading head spinning media to increase access speed and reduce spinning = reduce energy cost & reduce the chance of damage. For example, instead of a single harddrive arm, we have 2 or 3, same for optical device.
The fall of all gaming phone device is they're missing App Store, the creativity of new game that works on phone platform. After opening up the App store, it allows greater creativity. That means more great game on the phone. Just like how come plam is never a great gaming platform with the stylus, but it works out on the Nintendo DS.
This is exactly my idea about making browser have standard major module. Where user can pick their javascript engine, render engine, and other addon. And all browser provide is a shell that host those information together. Allow user to manage those parts easily. And provides an env where those modules can communicate with each other efficiently. Obviously browser also have to manage these modules, so they don't eat each other, provide a safe env for each module, so that they have enough resource to do their job. And make sure they don't take too much resource to slow down the whole machine ...
There's all kind of problem in browsers. I think the only safe way to browse the web is to create a virtual machine, then run the browser within the virtual machine, so if anything bad happens, just replace the virtual machine, then you're good again. Why can't someone think of a way to built a tiny virtual machine within browser, The virtual machine should only apply functionality that a browser ever needed. Then if anything bad happens, just roll back to the original backup of the virtual machine. It's a like a browser contains a virtual machine that run the browser which contains it.
Why couldn't Pandora invest on a couple of solar panel. Have the solar panel generate power, sell the electricity, and use that money to pay for the music? So we all have endless supply of free music. Problem solved.
found some reclose-able anti-static bag http://www.uline.com/BL_57/No-Print-Static-Shielding-Bags-Reclosable
I totally agree, I think the next step Google will take is to hire reporters and start their own e-news branch. So they have their own content. They can start hiring all the reporters that are fired from the newspaper company.
I totally agree, but even thou American products can be easily recreated at no cost, but the American product quality is hardly recreated by the Chinese. I haven't seen any Chinese product that has the same quality as the old American products. I think American should open their factories again and compete with Chinese factories. Even the product might costs a little more, but MADE IN USA still give people the impression of higher quality product. And I *LOVE* MADE IN USA high quality product!
I second to that. You cannot check out the real product in-store is a big minus to online-store. And people who buy their stuff online take advantage of BB. I think in the future, Online store should open some "retail" store to "display" product. That way, it's a more fair game. You can go to those "display" store, check out the product. Then purchase online, and they will ship the product to you in 2-3 days. Therefore all the "display" store is a lot smaller, and it could use the rest of the "inventory" space as "display" and be able to display even more variety of products. It's like hybrid model, I would say.
I read the article about low price of killer app. I think Apple should come up with additional payment method. Now iPhone App still sell as a "product", there's no "service" App yet. But I think people might not like the idea of "service" app. Therefore I think, we should find the middle ground, call it "lease", you pay a small amount and get a full functional program. Every day you use it, App store deduct a small amount from your account. User should be able to choose the amount range from 1 cent a day to $10 a day. So if the user would like to keep the app, they continue to use it and pay the "lease" amount, until the "lease" has been match the "product" price. There might be some interest involve. So people can test full functional software without paying the premium in front. And developer can still get their portion of the money if the user really like the app and would like to use it and keep it for a while. Of course, if the user decided the app is not good, they can just remove the app, and the app store stop the lease payment... I hope my idea will be applied to app store evey where.
I have been talking about this since the last discussion on browser technology. We should have a browser that's plug-n-play friendly, which allow us to choose our favorite render engine, our favorite javascript engine, and the browser just somehow link them together. This give the user the choice and be free from a specific flavor, and be able to choose from the best of the best, and not like, i can have the best rendering engine but not the best javascript engine, or the best css engine and not the best javascript engine. Last time when I bring this up, everyone is like why.. I think this browser is very close to what I wanted.. CHOICE!
I think some companies should just go clean up all the retired/inactive/disfunctional satellites or junk and recycle it! ;)
I think the Chinese government is trying to say... "Your (Microsoft) software is so good and so expensive, it's monopolize our pirate market. No one is buying any Linux software in our pirate market." LOL
I had this idea, when I was using IE6. I saw IE6 doesn't handle CSS2 as well as firefox does. Therefore I always think about how nice if IE6 allow a CSS interpreter plug-in function, so I can just grab the firefox CSS2 interpreter and plug it in to IE6, so i can continue to use IE6. IE6 is just an example I use here. My point is to give customer more choice and let customer's power to influence how each module should evolve. Instead of packaging everything into a single package where customer must accept everything that come with the package without a choice. My other example would be... if I buy a desktop computer set, but I hate the basic video card that come with the desktop. Everything else inside the computer set is great. Should I suffer and settle down with the basic video card? Or should I be able to choose the best video card in the market and plug into the computer. This way will stimulate the grow of better module (better graphic card... ) because there's a demand.
I think all the future web browser should have a standard javascript and CSS, plug-and-play function, allowing users to choose their favorite javascript interpreter and CSS interpreter. For instance, I like Safari's javascript interpreter, but firefox CSS interpreter.. then I can just get those plug-in and put it in my browser (which have a built in HTML interpreter.)
Just enough CPU power for word processing and web browsing (of course tweaking the OS to optimize the CPU usage would help a lot, such as a customize Linux for the EEE). A lot of battery life (either increase battery size, or improve battery consumption). More screen space without increasing the laptop size. I wish a dual LCD monitor with 10' each. (7' or 9.8' are too small). The location of the second LCD should be located underneath the keyboard. And the regular LCD should be able to flip over like a tablet pc. Once it's flip backward. It can combine/joined the LCD screen with the screen that's underneath the keyboard and form a 12-14' LCD touch tablet screen (without keyboard). If it's not combined/joined, the dual screen will look like a book, for great ebook reading machine. Of course, you can always turn the screen back to the front and use it as a laptop with only 1 LCD turn on. That would be my perfect machine. 1Gb memory and a SDHC slot with a small but "fast" harddrive is all I needed. In conclusion: 1.5GHz CPU 1G RAM fast harddrive 7200RPM or SSD small enough to host OS and app SDHC for portable data dual small screen (possible touch screen, when it's used without keyboard) and should be able to combine to form 1 big screen. put as much battery life as my 3.5-4lb limit permitted. (don't mind if it make the machine a little heavier, but still 3.5-4lb.)
Every company tech or not are going green. They all try to come up with some kind of product that related to green. If Apple were to come up with a green computer or gadget, they could easily just use "Green Apple" to market their new green product line. If that is the case, they definitely need to do something regarding this logo. So their future "Green Apple" line won't get mix up with this green NYC logo. Possible? Maybe..
IMO, only 10%-15% of students can study independently, they're smart/hardworking. But the end result is, they understand the subject at the end by attending class, reading text book and doing the homework. For the rest of the students, 90%-85%, they don't understand the material totally. Only a few percent within that group actually want to honestly learn the technique by learning. The majority of the students, they just want to get by, by finishing the homework and get grade and pass the course. This is the different between a "learner" and a "student" in my definition. My definition of a "learner" is who would like to learn the technique understand it and apply it, regardless at the end if he/she get a good grade or not, but he/she retain the technique that they learn. My definition of a "student" is create by the grading system that the school created. They ("student") only cares about grade and passing the course. They will do anything to get grade and pass the course without really care about obtaining the technique or care about retaining the technique. So IMO, if a "learner" would use the collaboration technique to obtain knowledge, that is just to me. But if a "student" would use the collaboration technique to just pass the class or get good grade, that's not just. However, our society happens to need both type of people. People who love knowledge and become scientist or engineer. Or people just like to get things done... Both type of people need to pass the University and get a college degree.
Why don't you wait for the 1.6TB SSD to come out and but 2-3 of those and use it as backup. I know it will probably cost you a fortune.