It looks like cell phones will be this generation's cigarettes - everybody uses them freely while ignoring/not fully acknowledging the medical risks involved. Expect restrictions on using them without a headset and other common sense precautions.
Cell phones are microwave ovens cooking your head. Hold next to any body part, especially your head, at your own risk. Always use the earbuds/microphone or at least a bluetooth device.
You jest, but I remember the day when the punch card machine came that let you type end edit the 80 column image BEFORE punching the card, instead of punching it as you typed. THAT was a huge leap forward. Many forests were saved.
I have NEVER had a good experience dealing with Verizon phone or store personnel. I only feel better when I compare horror stories with AT&T customers, who have similar complaints.
I am also amazed at the piss-poor quality of connection we collectively tolerate as cell phone consumers. Remember when you could talk over a land line and actually hear somebody? And now my wife and daughter want iPhones so it's about to get even worse.
Like everything else, nothing can be referred to in absolute terms. Some apps make sense for the cloud - MS Exchange for example, and some don't - MS Office for example.
Some work needs to remain private no matter what "security" is in place, and some work is by nature collaborative and shareable.
People have predicted the fall of Windows for years but it is bigger and the clients are fatter than ever.
The Chinese are noted for their LACK of creativity due to their strict caste structure - in that a person of a lower caste cannot offer up a potential improvement in any process or technology that might embarrass a superior. This structure (or lack thereof) in the US is a big reason we develop so much new out-of-the box technology. All the Chinese know how to do is copy, right down to our architecture. The day they learn to think for themselves we are REALLY in trouble.
They were on laptops for over a hour? They said they were being notified by a special transponder system that sounds an alert in the cockpit - they didn't hear that?
And doesn't the system they were using need to access online schedules? Were they connected?
I still think they were getting some nappie-poo time.
The product was not sold as a computer or development platform. It was sold as an end user product with documented functionality as described in the user's manual. Sure enough, when the hacks disable their machines TI will get the support call. Most slashdotters will probably flame me for this.
We're not actually seeing Marge Simpson naked, we're seeing Matt Groening's VISION of Marge Simpson naked. Not sure I want to be that deep into his fantasies...
The word henge has never come up here in CA in any conversation I've ever been in except as a reference to the infamous Stonehenge, and even then, I doubt very many people here know that the noun is henge and Stone is a modifier used to call out a specific henge.
Thanks for the henge references - I shall seek them out on my next trip to Europe!
Remember that many politicos are old and are just getting the hang of email and other electronic media. There is still a huge amount of faxing going on. The idea of posting documents electronically is one thing, the idea of providing deltas, versions and even configuration control is something else entirely.
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It looks like cell phones will be this generation's cigarettes - everybody uses them freely while ignoring/not fully acknowledging the medical risks involved. Expect restrictions on using them without a headset and other common sense precautions.
Cell phones are microwave ovens cooking your head. Hold next to any body part, especially your head, at your own risk. Always use the earbuds/microphone or at least a bluetooth device.
...this was an "edge case" they obviously did not test for!
...the beetles have no protection against boil-over.
You jest, but I remember the day when the punch card machine came that let you type end edit the 80 column image BEFORE punching the card, instead of punching it as you typed. THAT was a huge leap forward. Many forests were saved.
I have NEVER had a good experience dealing with Verizon phone or store personnel. I only feel better when I compare horror stories with AT&T customers, who have similar complaints.
I am also amazed at the piss-poor quality of connection we collectively tolerate as cell phone consumers. Remember when you could talk over a land line and actually hear somebody? And now my wife and daughter want iPhones so it's about to get even worse.
Not at SJC (San Jose). It's free there.
...and I'm sure Wally isn't taking this news well.
We're both wrong: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Body_part_with_most_nerve_endings
...cutting off one's fingerprints and swapping them between hands? OUCH!!! And there's more nerves there than anywhere else in the body.
Like everything else, nothing can be referred to in absolute terms. Some apps make sense for the cloud - MS Exchange for example, and some don't - MS Office for example.
Some work needs to remain private no matter what "security" is in place, and some work is by nature collaborative and shareable.
People have predicted the fall of Windows for years but it is bigger and the clients are fatter than ever.
...we will be assimilated without resistance.
We've heard about the antiquated ATC system for over a decade. Does anybody on the inside know if, and when they'll upgrade?
The Chinese are noted for their LACK of creativity due to their strict caste structure - in that a person of a lower caste cannot offer up a potential improvement in any process or technology that might embarrass a superior. This structure (or lack thereof) in the US is a big reason we develop so much new out-of-the box technology. All the Chinese know how to do is copy, right down to our architecture. The day they learn to think for themselves we are REALLY in trouble.
Get ready for many more such lawsuits, thus providing job security for lawyers and judges.
they can't replicate.
Firefox has had over a billion downloads - that's not influential??
whatcouldpossiblygowrong?
They were on laptops for over a hour? They said they were being notified by a special transponder system that sounds an alert in the cockpit - they didn't hear that?
And doesn't the system they were using need to access online schedules? Were they connected?
I still think they were getting some nappie-poo time.
TI isn't trying to stop the hack. They're trying to stop the publishing of the instructions of how to do the hack. Different discussion.
The product was not sold as a computer or development platform. It was sold as an end user product with documented functionality as described in the user's manual. Sure enough, when the hacks disable their machines TI will get the support call. Most slashdotters will probably flame me for this.
We're not actually seeing Marge Simpson naked, we're seeing Matt Groening's VISION of Marge Simpson naked. Not sure I want to be that deep into his fantasies...
The word henge has never come up here in CA in any conversation I've ever been in except as a reference to the infamous Stonehenge, and even then, I doubt very many people here know that the noun is henge and Stone is a modifier used to call out a specific henge.
Thanks for the henge references - I shall seek them out on my next trip to Europe!
How many more henges are we going to find? Why isn't the word henge used more in day-to-day conversation?
Remember that many politicos are old and are just getting the hang of email and other electronic media. There is still a huge amount of faxing going on. The idea of posting documents electronically is one thing, the idea of providing deltas, versions and even configuration control is something else entirely.