WHY? Because it's damn funny!! If you can laugh at the jokes made at MS (which I assume you do), then take a little...everyone on/. knows that Mac users give a lot of lip. Take a joke and enjoy it. This was better done than anything I've ever seen come from the Apple basher club.
As I read this about batteries, I'd love for someone with a lot more experience and knowledge to chime in on potential energy storage as opposed to these chemical/electrical? I would assume it to be a lot less expensive to build/install and maintain over the long term to have the wind (for example) pump water up a tower and then use gravity and water the water coming down to generate electricity. Seems like using the wind to create potential energy could be cheaper (and simple) if we had some ingenious concepts working on that. It would also be better for exporting to real polluting nations like India and China.
Many people would be converting and those that have already converted would be seeking ways to destroy the old faith by any means possible. The new religion is full of love?
Sales pitch: "Don't like the view out your window, just download the "window saver" display scenes and have your view instantly show the scenery you wished you had. Live in a bad part of town? Now you can have beautiful vistas out every window..."
That could work in theory. I imagine you would have to have micro-layers to channel the light from the source out to the pixls and have each column of pixels be in an incrimentally lower depth so as to be hit by a fresh beam of light and not obstructed by the light source from a column of pixels between it and the source.
You are basically getting to the point of creating a sheet of fiber-optics, if you take it this far. That would be better than a disruption of light. You shoot the light straight out at the viewer. Now we're talk big bucks!!
You are mostly correct, but even in restaruants and construction, many items still do come from other countries. Much of our lumber comes from Canada and a lot of food from mexico and beyond.
It looks like this is only the color filtering aspect of a display and not the light source. Still have to hold it up to a flashlight while you try to use it or hang it from your window. In these cases, it would be easier if it were not so flexible.
Now if they had this display providing light and being still thin and flexible, then you got the whole package.
OK. I like the idea and concept. Have any of you actually seen the wind farms in person? Have you seen the solar stations in person? Where on Hawaii are you planning to put up 1000 propellers and a sea of black-glass?
I can see the postcards coming out someday from the OLD DAYS when Hawaii used to be a beautiful landscape. It works on the mainland because we got Montana (where I live) and Wyoming. There is so much open land up here, you could power the whole US off the land up here and nobody would even see a single tower from the highway...but in Hawaii?
All FanBoys also know that you must love on your machine. Unlike PC varieties that don't need to burn in a laptop display like a transmission on a new car (from 20 years ago), you need to love your machine.
-Stroke the keys lightly as if to say, I love and want everyone to see me holding your hand as I walk down the street.
-Offer the CD/DVD to the machine with both hands. Don't force it in, be very gentle the first time. It needs to loosen up a little before you start inserting them more aggressively.
-Speak lovinging. With your enthusiasm of buying an overpriced, sexy trophy computer, you might be tempted to do a cool dance and yell and scream. This can produce flying spit that may land on the keyboard and render it soft and cushy feel.
-Carry with a keyboard pad. Never close the lid without putting a soft pad over the keyboard. The display and keys with chafe. Don't use powder to reduce chafing.
I don't know, my computer has never had a virus and never will. This TRS-80 Model I Level II runs like a dream. Just have to get the hang of loading and saving programs with the tape cassette player/recorder.
I don't care about MS or what people have against whatever.
Photosynth is amazing!!!
I had some old photos taken of a climbing wall with my kids on different places at different times and from different angles. I uploaded all the photos and BAM!! It stitched them all together and gave us a realtime multi-perspective look at it. Whatever gripes you have about MS, give them credit when they are working on something that it really cool!!!
Rumors with many details coming from the UK? That's all they have. You want to know where the details come from? Duh! A writer that was about to get canned unless he/she came up with something big to sell their publication.
I could sit down and write up a rumor in 5 minutes with tons of details and hide behind the annonymous source shield forever. For that matter, if this is worth/.ers time, lets start a whole rumor blog. Everyone! Start a rumors here. Put all the details you like to make it sound reliable, but quote nobody.
My kids started playing with the computer when they were about that age, BUT NOT MY LAPTOP!!! Assuming you have a desktop computer, put a cheap keyboard in front of them, downlaod free kids apps that make lots of sounds and lights. Cheap way to have them begin to learn that pressing keys on a board has a response from the computer. Won't help them grow smart, but should entertain them for about 34 seconds or so. Then the two year old will scream from something else to do.
You should all move to Montana. The police here will only pull you over when driving with a broken tail light on your car. The rest of the time, you're allowed to live your life they way you want... so long as you don't hurt anyone. You all must be living in fear because of what you do.
If you're going to do this right, buy a company like AVG and then give away the software. Don't just stick it to them all. You've got the money, MS, do what other companies often do. Buy a company that already does a pretty good job...don't just put them out of business.
This sounds really smart. Let out something that the military uses and see how long it takes to get hacked. We go through this all the time and everyone thinks they've got it licked. Then, after about a billion collective hacking hours are spent on it, some joker finds the hole. Now they can drop bombs! Cool!!!
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WHY? Because it's damn funny!! If you can laugh at the jokes made at MS (which I assume you do), then take a little...everyone on /. knows that Mac users give a lot of lip. Take a joke and enjoy it. This was better done than anything I've ever seen come from the Apple basher club.
You seem to be in great pain. Consider sitting on a chair rather than on the point of a broom handle.
As I read this about batteries, I'd love for someone with a lot more experience and knowledge to chime in on potential energy storage as opposed to these chemical/electrical? I would assume it to be a lot less expensive to build/install and maintain over the long term to have the wind (for example) pump water up a tower and then use gravity and water the water coming down to generate electricity. Seems like using the wind to create potential energy could be cheaper (and simple) if we had some ingenious concepts working on that. It would also be better for exporting to real polluting nations like India and China.
Many people would be converting and those that have already converted would be seeking ways to destroy the old faith by any means possible. The new religion is full of love?
I like that thought...
Sales pitch: "Don't like the view out your window, just download the "window saver" display scenes and have your view instantly show the scenery you wished you had. Live in a bad part of town? Now you can have beautiful vistas out every window..."
That could work in theory. I imagine you would have to have micro-layers to channel the light from the source out to the pixls and have each column of pixels be in an incrimentally lower depth so as to be hit by a fresh beam of light and not obstructed by the light source from a column of pixels between it and the source.
You are basically getting to the point of creating a sheet of fiber-optics, if you take it this far. That would be better than a disruption of light. You shoot the light straight out at the viewer. Now we're talk big bucks!!
You are mostly correct, but even in restaruants and construction, many items still do come from other countries. Much of our lumber comes from Canada and a lot of food from mexico and beyond.
It looks like this is only the color filtering aspect of a display and not the light source. Still have to hold it up to a flashlight while you try to use it or hang it from your window. In these cases, it would be easier if it were not so flexible.
Now if they had this display providing light and being still thin and flexible, then you got the whole package.
OK. I like the idea and concept. Have any of you actually seen the wind farms in person? Have you seen the solar stations in person? Where on Hawaii are you planning to put up 1000 propellers and a sea of black-glass?
I can see the postcards coming out someday from the OLD DAYS when Hawaii used to be a beautiful landscape. It works on the mainland because we got Montana (where I live) and Wyoming. There is so much open land up here, you could power the whole US off the land up here and nobody would even see a single tower from the highway...but in Hawaii?
There more in my statement, if you read carefully. Sex and Macs go hand in hand...or hand in...
All FanBoys also know that you must love on your machine. Unlike PC varieties that don't need to burn in a laptop display like a transmission on a new car (from 20 years ago), you need to love your machine.
-Stroke the keys lightly as if to say, I love and want everyone to see me holding your hand as I walk down the street.
-Offer the CD/DVD to the machine with both hands. Don't force it in, be very gentle the first time. It needs to loosen up a little before you start inserting them more aggressively.
-Speak lovinging. With your enthusiasm of buying an overpriced, sexy trophy computer, you might be tempted to do a cool dance and yell and scream. This can produce flying spit that may land on the keyboard and render it soft and cushy feel.
-Carry with a keyboard pad. Never close the lid without putting a soft pad over the keyboard. The display and keys with chafe. Don't use powder to reduce chafing.
I don't know, my computer has never had a virus and never will. This TRS-80 Model I Level II runs like a dream. Just have to get the hang of loading and saving programs with the tape cassette player/recorder.
Yep, your right. Making a hamburger is just like manufacturing a mouse.
I prefer the chemical composition of 409 over Comet.
Are we talking Suspend or Hibernation? Windows got it backwards then?
Duh!!!!!How much did that study cost?
I don't care about MS or what people have against whatever.
Photosynth is amazing!!!
I had some old photos taken of a climbing wall with my kids on different places at different times and from different angles. I uploaded all the photos and BAM!! It stitched them all together and gave us a realtime multi-perspective look at it. Whatever gripes you have about MS, give them credit when they are working on something that it really cool!!!
..since you have an axe to grind...
This doesn't belong on /. Come on.
/.ers time, lets start a whole rumor blog. Everyone! Start a rumors here. Put all the details you like to make it sound reliable, but quote nobody.
Rumors with many details coming from the UK? That's all they have. You want to know where the details come from? Duh! A writer that was about to get canned unless he/she came up with something big to sell their publication.
I could sit down and write up a rumor in 5 minutes with tons of details and hide behind the annonymous source shield forever. For that matter, if this is worth
6. Al Gore really invented.
My kids started playing with the computer when they were about that age, BUT NOT MY LAPTOP!!! Assuming you have a desktop computer, put a cheap keyboard in front of them, downlaod free kids apps that make lots of sounds and lights. Cheap way to have them begin to learn that pressing keys on a board has a response from the computer. Won't help them grow smart, but should entertain them for about 34 seconds or so. Then the two year old will scream from something else to do.
You should all move to Montana. The police here will only pull you over when driving with a broken tail light on your car. The rest of the time, you're allowed to live your life they way you want... so long as you don't hurt anyone. You all must be living in fear because of what you do.
If you're going to do this right, buy a company like AVG and then give away the software. Don't just stick it to them all. You've got the money, MS, do what other companies often do. Buy a company that already does a pretty good job...don't just put them out of business.
This sounds really smart. Let out something that the military uses and see how long it takes to get hacked. We go through this all the time and everyone thinks they've got it licked. Then, after about a billion collective hacking hours are spent on it, some joker finds the hole. Now they can drop bombs! Cool!!!
I agree. The truth hurts too much!