I don't seem to type much faster on a Blackberry thumb keyboard than I do on a Palm V virtual keyboard using the stylus. Maybe if the buttons were a bit taller I'd be less likely to hit two at once, but thumb keyboards certainly are not perfect (or better than what we have already) yet.
Now if a keyboard opened up and folded (or rolled!) out, it would be really cool. (but impractical!?!)
I'm coming to have a lot of respect for Samsung lately, what with their flat panels with integrated TV tuners, HDTV ready flat panels, their nice cheap 770 TFT (of which I have several tied together with a Matrox G200MMS card), their Yepp MP3 player (of which I have one)(it even plays my cdex/lame encoded vbr mp3s), and a host of other cool products, not to mention a nice website. (menu: who we are, what we sell, where we are. Just what we need to know.)
This Alpha board is another in their seemingly endless line of cheap but good products, not cutting edge like IBM or Sony, but taking existing technology and getting it to the masses at a reasonable price and quality.
(/jonbrewer thinks he'll head to etrade and put his money where his mouth is.)
The cash organizations pay to parties and politicians is really token. It's the non-cash that really hooks the pols. Paid vacations, speaking fees, lavish presents, parties. How we should measure the influence of MPAA on our pols is not by their cash contributions, but by their expenditures on lobbyists.
Back to the point, this lawsuit is the establishment pissing in the wind again. No matter what lawsuits are filed, and what legislation passed, someone will find the technological means to "liberate" content.
What's unfortunate about this is that in the future, content will become heavy with embedded advertisements to compensate for our new consumption habits, such as avoidance of commercials and non-prime-time viewing. After legal and technological means fail the establishment (and they will), we'll begin to see many more ads projected onto football pitches, more closeups of nikes in reality tv, and more mentions of specific brands in sitcoms.
As the Accenture commercials say - "Now it gets interesting."
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That's frightening! (XP MSIE 6.0.2600)
It looks to me though that the Opera people are exploiting a specific IE bug by putting so many tabs between the open-bracket of css elements and the actual attribute.
This is actually the first page I've seen rendered poorly by XP/IE6, but then again it's only been a few days...
Too many people are saying "it can't be done" or "you don't really need 30fps." That's/. bs for you.
Tape cost could be lower than $10k/day though if you're buying in quantity. 40GB native tapes are ~ $60 each now at retail.
Up front costs may be more... our StorageTek box set us back something like 2 million, and I think it only has six drives and capacity for a few hundred tapes before you have to swap them out.
Certainly there will be plenty of infrastructure charges associated - conditioned storage for all those tapes for one.
All in all though, not a tremendous amount of money nor innovation involved. Just scaling up what we already have out there.
I'll pay more to get rid of the banners at the top. Serious. In fact, I'd pay $10/month for no images at all and some good, clean XHTML/css or XML/XSL. Give me more information, faster, cut all the ads, the lousy HTML formatting, and I'll gladly pay for it.
Give the customer whatever s/he wants, and you'll stay afloat.
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Any large corporation based on the sales of intellectual property is bound to have a rough time of the next ten years. Widespread pirating of music, software, and now even pharmaceuticals occurs all over the world, in some cases with the support of governments in power. It can't be stopped, and it won't be stopped.
IBM has this thought out. Their revenues going forward are more and more service-based. That's something you just can't steal.
Microsoft shouldn't be afraid of becoming IBM. They should be afraid of not becoming IBM.
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These especially apply for touchy-feely jobs like "information architecture," but can be applied to any job within McCorporation.
1. Clearly define yearly goals. Make sure they're realistic and qualitative, not quantitative. Include in your goals learning something you are interested in. Have your manager sign off on them.
2. Touch every project you know of that's related to your work. No need to get heavily involved. Look at the project, know what's going on, know the technology, know how it will affect your work. Write an opinion, recommendation, or just a report. Make it short and high-content. A pretty picture never hurts. Make sure to email it to PHB, as he probably won't remember to look at your intranet site. At least then his sec2 will have read it. Do this at least once mid-way through each quarter.
3. Write quarterly reports. Trump up any work you've done on popular projects, keep work on politically sensitive projects to a few lines. Again, email to PHB. This time he'll read it. They always read quarterly reports.
4. Request at least two weeks of training a year. Make these requests at least two months before you want to go, or within ten minutes of hearing your boss mention extra budget money. Include summaries of what you learned at these training sessions in your quarterly reports.
5. Request to go to at least two conferences per year. Again, write about what you learned at these conferences. Include in reports.
6. Write a yearly report and hand it over in November, along with next year's goals. Make sure your yearly report shows that you met or exceeded each of your goals.
7. Don't piss too many people off.
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So that's it. Do this and you'll be an information architect for as long as it amuses you. I'm serious.
Now if you need some ideas on training and seminars, and the general work part of being an information architect, just go here: Object Management Group - you should be able to take care of the rest here.
I don't see the point in giving away PCs to people with these salaries. Especially considering the percentage of these people in two income households. (Check the census)
Now if Ford really wanted to do some good for the world, they'd give computers to their foreign workers and leave the Americans to buy their own.
I know my Golf will need help when it finally learns how to read my emotions on the road.
Incomprehensible. It'll be just minutes before it goes catatonic. As soon as a Boston cab driver does his normal shit in front of me, my poor car will sense the deepest, blackest rage imaginable, while at the same time receiving instructions from my feet and hands to do dangerous, life-threatening things that will make me feel better.
With real estate prices as they are in Cambridge, I bet Polaroid could cut a chunk of debt just by renting or selling off their land. They have properties in some very desirable locations.
Commercial space in Cambridgeport rents at around $60/sq foot, when it can be found. Even with the current "recession" prices haven't budged. Hop on over the the WSJ for some insight.
With their name, their engineering talent, their land (to provide some cash) and a reasonable restructuring, Polaroid could relaunch themselves as a player in the digital market in under two years.
I get bills in the mail, and pay them electronically. If the vendor does not support electronic transfer, my bank takes care of the check-printing and mailing for me, without my knowledge.
I get phone messages at work. (a nice button on my phone keeps it from ringing about 80% of the time.) I return those messages via email.
So when you say you return correspondence in the way initiated, I say you don't have to.
I believe most of the functionality you mentioned has been "assimilated" into XP.:-)
Another point: linux distro CDs will cease to be readily available in the coming months. Stores are realizing that they are full of out-of-date stock of various distros that aren't selling. Don't believe me? Go to Staples/OfficeMax/GenericOfficeStore and look in their clearance section. It's sad.
So I think that the loss of broadband providers will have no positive impact on OSS.
I'm not sure if you are aware, but the US already can detain non-citizens indefinitely. They also do not have to tell detainees what they're accused of.
Three laws passed in 1996 together allow this... and have led to over 3500 people indefinitely detained. The laws are: The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act, The Anti-Terrorist and Effective Death Penalty Act, and The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
Actually, Mr. Rob, I do know a guy who sells titanium for plating large things al la the Bilbao Guggenheim. I did some consulting for said guy, a retired professor of architecture, several years ago. IIRC he was reselling products of TIMET, the Titanium Metals Corporation.
From what I remember, plated with Titanium you'd be able to survive 100 years of life in some large far-east city like Kuala Lumpur without corroding.
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I don't seem to type much faster on a Blackberry thumb keyboard than I do on a Palm V virtual keyboard using the stylus. Maybe if the buttons were a bit taller I'd be less likely to hit two at once, but thumb keyboards certainly are not perfect (or better than what we have already) yet.
Now if a keyboard opened up and folded (or rolled!) out, it would be really cool. (but impractical!?!)
Samsung seems only to trade in Korea and London. So much for buying them on etrade...
I'm coming to have a lot of respect for Samsung lately, what with their flat panels with integrated TV tuners, HDTV ready flat panels, their nice cheap 770 TFT (of which I have several tied together with a Matrox G200MMS card), their Yepp MP3 player (of which I have one)(it even plays my cdex/lame encoded vbr mp3s), and a host of other cool products, not to mention a nice website. (menu: who we are, what we sell, where we are. Just what we need to know.)
This Alpha board is another in their seemingly endless line of cheap but good products, not cutting edge like IBM or Sony, but taking existing technology and getting it to the masses at a reasonable price and quality.
(/jonbrewer thinks he'll head to etrade and put his money where his mouth is.)
I was just about to watch the trailier, and you had to Slashdot it. arrgh.
The cash organizations pay to parties and politicians is really token. It's the non-cash that really hooks the pols. Paid vacations, speaking fees, lavish presents, parties. How we should measure the influence of MPAA on our pols is not by their cash contributions, but by their expenditures on lobbyists.
Back to the point, this lawsuit is the establishment pissing in the wind again. No matter what lawsuits are filed, and what legislation passed, someone will find the technological means to "liberate" content.
What's unfortunate about this is that in the future, content will become heavy with embedded advertisements to compensate for our new consumption habits, such as avoidance of commercials and non-prime-time viewing. After legal and technological means fail the establishment (and they will), we'll begin to see many more ads projected onto football pitches, more closeups of nikes in reality tv, and more mentions of specific brands in sitcoms.
As the Accenture commercials say - "Now it gets interesting."
That's frightening! (XP MSIE 6.0.2600)
It looks to me though that the Opera people are exploiting a specific IE bug by putting so many tabs between the open-bracket of css elements and the actual attribute.
This is actually the first page I've seen rendered poorly by XP/IE6, but then again it's only been a few days...
Very cool. And I'll be ok with the UK model. I use VoiceStream GSM 1900 here in the states.
I like the snooze function on the phone alarm clock too. My Nokias always take so much energy to set and reset the alarm.
Now if I can just program in my calling card I'll be doing Bluetooth, GSM, and VoIP when calling your side of the pond.
Thanks for the link! (and the web compliment!)
Cheers,
Jon
A very good answer.
/. bs for you.
Too many people are saying "it can't be done" or "you don't really need 30fps." That's
Tape cost could be lower than $10k/day though if you're buying in quantity. 40GB native tapes are ~ $60 each now at retail.
Up front costs may be more... our StorageTek box set us back something like 2 million, and I think it only has six drives and capacity for a few hundred tapes before you have to swap them out.
Certainly there will be plenty of infrastructure charges associated - conditioned storage for all those tapes for one.
All in all though, not a tremendous amount of money nor innovation involved. Just scaling up what we already have out there.
This shit happens every day. Maybe it's time for an Open Source blacklist?
(not that I'd want to have anything to do with it.)
Cool! Can you post a link? My phone is almost six months old now... almost time for a new one. :-)
All please read that announcement as having said "40 gigabit," 'cause that's what it is. Still fast... 4x OC-192.
God knows how the research people pay for this. Impoverished corporations like my employer still dick around with multiples of T1.
Avaki were in peddling their grid computing solution, and I had to say to the guy... "do you have any idea how little bandwidth we have?"
Grid computing will affect the rest of us when everyone can get high speed network connections.
I'll pay more to get rid of the banners at the top. Serious. In fact, I'd pay $10/month for no images at all and some good, clean XHTML/css or XML/XSL. Give me more information, faster, cut all the ads, the lousy HTML formatting, and I'll gladly pay for it.
Give the customer whatever s/he wants, and you'll stay afloat.
Any large corporation based on the sales of intellectual property is bound to have a rough time of the next ten years. Widespread pirating of music, software, and now even pharmaceuticals occurs all over the world, in some cases with the support of governments in power. It can't be stopped, and it won't be stopped.
IBM has this thought out. Their revenues going forward are more and more service-based. That's something you just can't steal.
Microsoft shouldn't be afraid of becoming IBM. They should be afraid of not becoming IBM.
These especially apply for touchy-feely jobs like "information architecture," but can be applied to any job within McCorporation.
1. Clearly define yearly goals. Make sure they're realistic and qualitative, not quantitative. Include in your goals learning something you are interested in. Have your manager sign off on them.
2. Touch every project you know of that's related to your work. No need to get heavily involved. Look at the project, know what's going on, know the technology, know how it will affect your work. Write an opinion, recommendation, or just a report. Make it short and high-content. A pretty picture never hurts. Make sure to email it to PHB, as he probably won't remember to look at your intranet site. At least then his sec2 will have read it. Do this at least once mid-way through each quarter.
3. Write quarterly reports. Trump up any work you've done on popular projects, keep work on politically sensitive projects to a few lines. Again, email to PHB. This time he'll read it. They always read quarterly reports.
4. Request at least two weeks of training a year. Make these requests at least two months before you want to go, or within ten minutes of hearing your boss mention extra budget money. Include summaries of what you learned at these training sessions in your quarterly reports.
5. Request to go to at least two conferences per year. Again, write about what you learned at these conferences. Include in reports.
6. Write a yearly report and hand it over in November, along with next year's goals. Make sure your yearly report shows that you met or exceeded each of your goals.
7. Don't piss too many people off.
-----------------
So that's it. Do this and you'll be an information architect for as long as it amuses you. I'm serious.
Now if you need some ideas on training and seminars, and the general work part of being an information architect, just go here: Object Management Group - you should be able to take care of the rest here.
Good luck.
"Unionized GM assemblers make $21.02 per hour, Ford assemblers $21.03 and DaimlerChrysler assemblers $21.01."
This from: http://www.auto.com/industry/qgm17.htm
I don't see the point in giving away PCs to people with these salaries. Especially considering the percentage of these people in two income households. (Check the census)
Now if Ford really wanted to do some good for the world, they'd give computers to their foreign workers and leave the Americans to buy their own.
I know my Golf will need help when it finally learns how to read my emotions on the road.
Incomprehensible. It'll be just minutes before it goes catatonic. As soon as a Boston cab driver does his normal shit in front of me, my poor car will sense the deepest, blackest rage imaginable, while at the same time receiving instructions from my feet and hands to do dangerous, life-threatening things that will make me feel better.
If it's a good car it'll die immediately.
(bringing to mind many Asimov robot stories)
With real estate prices as they are in Cambridge, I bet Polaroid could cut a chunk of debt just by renting or selling off their land. They have properties in some very desirable locations.
Commercial space in Cambridgeport rents at around $60/sq foot, when it can be found. Even with the current "recession" prices haven't budged. Hop on over the the WSJ for some insight.
With their name, their engineering talent, their land (to provide some cash) and a reasonable restructuring, Polaroid could relaunch themselves as a player in the digital market in under two years.
I disagree somewhat.
I get bills in the mail, and pay them electronically. If the vendor does not support electronic transfer, my bank takes care of the check-printing and mailing for me, without my knowledge.
I get phone messages at work. (a nice button on my phone keeps it from ringing about 80% of the time.) I return those messages via email.
So when you say you return correspondence in the way initiated, I say you don't have to.
I certainly don't!
Obviously someone didn't read my comment before moderating.
All my Gonzo marketing attempts set off the Lameness filter.
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
for their nonsensical allocation of radio spectrum.
I can't get anything this cool to use on (VoiceStream) GSM 1900.
Guess I'll just have to buy one for my GF and visit her more often.
I believe most of the functionality you mentioned has been "assimilated" into XP. :-)
Another point: linux distro CDs will cease to be readily available in the coming months. Stores are realizing that they are full of out-of-date stock of various distros that aren't selling. Don't believe me? Go to Staples/OfficeMax/GenericOfficeStore and look in their clearance section. It's sad.
So I think that the loss of broadband providers will have no positive impact on OSS.
Yes but in the original arguement he was probably considering American soldiers killed.
God knows it wouldn't hold up if we were talking about all people in wars from past to present.
I'm not sure if you are aware, but the US already can detain non-citizens indefinitely. They also do not have to tell detainees what they're accused of.
Three laws passed in 1996 together allow this... and have led to over 3500 people indefinitely detained. The laws are: The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act, The Anti-Terrorist and Effective Death Penalty Act, and The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
The ACLU has more information on these laws.
Please do not construe my post to be an opinion on anything, just information.
Actually, Mr. Rob, I do know a guy who sells titanium for plating large things al la the Bilbao Guggenheim. I did some consulting for said guy, a retired professor of architecture, several years ago. IIRC he was reselling products of TIMET, the Titanium Metals Corporation.
From what I remember, plated with Titanium you'd be able to survive 100 years of life in some large far-east city like Kuala Lumpur without corroding.
Which is exactly what we need from you. Really.