One of the main problems with electonics is that they are welling to spend money on features, but not on the buttons to properly operate them. This is because on a per unit bases, buttons cost a lot more then a bit of extra software.
The result is unlabeled buttons that do many different things, depending on the context. Watches are one of the worst for this.
I remember at University that had this old Kodak copier where each setting had its own large, easy to press button that lit up when the setting was on. For example, light, medium and dark each had its own button and the button for the current setting was lit up.
In several Canadian provinces automobile insurance is handled by government owned companies. With the increasing costs of private insurance, other provinces may be added to the list.
I know this planet, where water falls from the sky on a regular basis. Not only that, but sometimes it falls in liquid form, and sometimes in solid form. Can you imagine how much of a mess that would make.
When these movies comes to network television, with so much content, they could probably get a whole season of one hour episodes out of it, rather then show it as a series of movies.
If you include the extras there are 12 hours of movie. If you add time for commercials and introductions, credits, reviews and previews, you could extand that to 17 hours. Add some "making of" stuff to each episode you could get a bit more.
With it's leangth there may not be any other pratical way to put it on network television.
Exactly the kinds of things that would make a job bad, such as repetitiveness, physical difficulty and boredom, are exactly the kinds of job that will be replaced by technology and automation. Toilet cleaners would be replaced by self-cleaning toilets. Prison guards would be replaced by automated force fields.
The only jobs that would be left would be creative jobs, like artists and writers. These are the kinds of things people like to do anyway, so there would be no shortage of them.
My only concern is that technology may replace even these creative jobs, if computers may start making better art then people. Then the human race might suffer from terminal boredom.
The economies will likely focus around creativity and intellectual property. That is the one thing that not only robots aren't able to do, it is the thing that humans enjoy doing, and they wouldn't give it up even if robots could take over.
I don't think there has been any security problems with OS/2 in the last year. Besides, it is so obscure, who would bother to figure out how to exploit it.
A new version of eComStation, a distrabution of OS/2, was released May 24, 2003.
People.. that's great. What about space construction, space research, plant/aninal tests. You can't fit much in a capsule.
What is needed is a heavy lift rocket that can do the construction for the space station. It could be cheaper because it wouldn't be man-rated. The we can send the people in the capsules up to the space station to do the research. Having one vehicle that does both, like the Space Shuttle, doesn't seem to be practile.
Without the space station we couldn't really do this, because we'd had to bring the people and equipment together, but with the space station you can be a lot more flexible.
Sounds like you are going to the extream in saving money. Have you considered giving up your car. While taking transit will take extra time, you can spend that time productively reading or working on a palmtop or laptop. You can rent a car for the times when you need one or join a car sharing club.
I would have thought that open source programs would have the advantage. With open source there are lots of copies of the source floating around, with old backups and old computers people have stopped using. With that you'll be able to find many people with proof that the source was there when you say it was and they will be independant.
With a closed source you've only got the company's copies and backups, which they could fake. There would be no independant proof.
It seemed to me it could have been a solar flare. It's something that we would have warning of, something we couldn't stop and something that could conceivably kill everyone if it was big enough. It might also allow it to be as bright as day at midnight.
If it's just the interface that is so great why doesn't someone re-create it on a modern PDA like a Palm or WinCE device? There isn't really anything that prevents someone form designing what ever interface they like for applications on these devices.
No. What happened is that Aline went out into the hall outside the Chretien's bedroom because there was a noise. She encountered the intruder and ran back inside the bedroom. The Prime Minister armed himself with an inuit sculpture but the intruder never entered the bedroom so he did not encounter the Prime Misister with his sculpture.
If DRM worked they wouldn't need laws to protect it. You wouldn't need laws to make it illigal to break the protection because you wouldn't be able to break it.
Hollywood knows it doesn't work, that's why they need the laws.
Several of the industries you mention, while not gone, have been decimated.
Movie theatres have been done okay so far, even with TV.
Live music is much smaller then it once was. Most of the damage was done by replacing bands with recorded music in clubs. It's very hard to make a living playing music, but there was a time when every town had it's own big band orchestra.
Vaudeville theatres once packed them in but now is gone, with many converted to cinimas.
Radio has been exclusively playing music, although talk radio is growing. Once radio had drama, game shows and almost everything else you now see on television.
These industries have changed and adapted, but they have also shunk a great deal from thier peaks.
Unless you are still prepared to watch commercials you should expect to pay more then what you pay for cable, because cable only covers distrabution of the shows, not production.
Moore's law is NOT a law, at best it's an observation that has so far been consistent.
If you're looking a definition of a scientific law, using "an observation that has so far been consistent" would be an excellent one. Just look at definition 6a in the dictionary. Morre's law is very much a law.
Assuming you where using the TDataSet descendents rather then the BDE API it should be pretty easy switch the app to using one of the many alternative database engines available.
As for the BDE, the only good thing about it is that encouraged so many 3rd party developers to create replacements for it.
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More importantly, all the ships Riker was offered where distoryed at Wolf 359 when the Borg attacked. He was even promoted to Captain at that time.
The message here is: have the head of your current project turned into a Borg so you can take over.
One of the main problems with electonics is that they are welling to spend money on features, but not on the buttons to properly operate them. This is because on a per unit bases, buttons cost a lot more then a bit of extra software.
The result is unlabeled buttons that do many different things, depending on the context. Watches are one of the worst for this.
I remember at University that had this old Kodak copier where each setting had its own large, easy to press button that lit up when the setting was on. For example, light, medium and dark each had its own button and the button for the current setting was lit up.
I believe they said, "Mars doesn't have any oxygen in its atmosphere."
The Canadian equivalent of the FCC, the CRTC, decided years ago not to regulate the Internet.
In several Canadian provinces automobile insurance is handled by government owned companies. With the increasing costs of private insurance, other provinces may be added to the list.
I know this planet, where water falls from the sky on a regular basis. Not only that, but sometimes it falls in liquid form, and sometimes in solid form. Can you imagine how much of a mess that would make.
When these movies comes to network television, with so much content, they could probably get a whole season of one hour episodes out of it, rather then show it as a series of movies.
If you include the extras there are 12 hours of movie. If you add time for commercials and introductions, credits, reviews and previews, you could extand that to 17 hours. Add some "making of" stuff to each episode you could get a bit more.
With it's leangth there may not be any other pratical way to put it on network television.
The software on Voyager has been maintained on updated over the years. Probably almost all of the orginal code has been replaced.
They used to boast that Voyager worked better near the end of its primary mission then when it launched because of the improved software.
You have to admit the hardware has done well.
Exactly the kinds of things that would make a job bad, such as repetitiveness, physical difficulty and boredom, are exactly the kinds of job that will be replaced by technology and automation. Toilet cleaners would be replaced by self-cleaning toilets. Prison guards would be replaced by automated force fields.
The only jobs that would be left would be creative jobs, like artists and writers. These are the kinds of things people like to do anyway, so there would be no shortage of them.
My only concern is that technology may replace even these creative jobs, if computers may start making better art then people. Then the human race might suffer from terminal boredom.
I guess your trying to be funny, but editing MS Word documents is supported by "Documents To Go" software which is included with the Tungsten T.
The economies will likely focus around creativity and intellectual property. That is the one thing that not only robots aren't able to do, it is the thing that humans enjoy doing, and they wouldn't give it up even if robots could take over.
I don't think there has been any security problems with OS/2 in the last year. Besides, it is so obscure, who would bother to figure out how to exploit it.
A new version of eComStation, a distrabution of OS/2, was released May 24, 2003.
People.. that's great. What about space construction, space research, plant/aninal tests. You can't fit much in a capsule.
What is needed is a heavy lift rocket that can do the construction for the space station. It could be cheaper because it wouldn't be man-rated. The we can send the people in the capsules up to the space station to do the research. Having one vehicle that does both, like the Space Shuttle, doesn't seem to be practile.
Without the space station we couldn't really do this, because we'd had to bring the people and equipment together, but with the space station you can be a lot more flexible.
Sounds like you are going to the extream in saving money. Have you considered giving up your car. While taking transit will take extra time, you can spend that time productively reading or working on a palmtop or laptop. You can rent a car for the times when you need one or join a car sharing club.
I would have thought that open source programs would have the advantage. With open source there are lots of copies of the source floating around, with old backups and old computers people have stopped using. With that you'll be able to find many people with proof that the source was there when you say it was and they will be independant.
With a closed source you've only got the company's copies and backups, which they could fake. There would be no independant proof.
It seemed to me it could have been a solar flare. It's something that we would have warning of, something we couldn't stop and something that could conceivably kill everyone if it was big enough. It might also allow it to be as bright as day at midnight.
If it's just the interface that is so great why doesn't someone re-create it on a modern PDA like a Palm or WinCE device? There isn't really anything that prevents someone form designing what ever interface they like for applications on these devices.
No. What happened is that Aline went out into the hall outside the Chretien's bedroom because there was a noise. She encountered the intruder and ran back inside the bedroom. The Prime Minister armed himself with an inuit sculpture but the intruder never entered the bedroom so he did not encounter the Prime Misister with his sculpture.
If DRM worked they wouldn't need laws to protect it. You wouldn't need laws to make it illigal to break the protection because you wouldn't be able to break it.
Hollywood knows it doesn't work, that's why they need the laws.
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Just out of curiosity, is there an all anime channel in Japan, or don't they have many speciality channels?
Even Canada has an all animation channel, you'd think Japan would have something similar.
Several of the industries you mention, while not gone, have been decimated.
Movie theatres have been done okay so far, even with TV.
Live music is much smaller then it once was. Most of the damage was done by replacing bands with recorded music in clubs. It's very hard to make a living playing music, but there was a time when every town had it's own big band orchestra.
Vaudeville theatres once packed them in but now is gone, with many converted to cinimas.
Radio has been exclusively playing music, although talk radio is growing. Once radio had drama, game shows and almost everything else you now see on television.
These industries have changed and adapted, but they have also shunk a great deal from thier peaks.
Perhaps you will get that answer, but you may make other shareholders aware of it and start thinking about if they should still own stock.
That will get the company's attention better then anything.
Unless you are still prepared to watch commercials you should expect to pay more then what you pay for cable, because cable only covers distrabution of the shows, not production.
Moore's law is NOT a law, at best it's an observation that has so far been consistent.
If you're looking a definition of a scientific law, using "an observation that has so far been consistent" would be an excellent one. Just look at definition 6a in the dictionary. Morre's law is very much a law.
Assuming you where using the TDataSet descendents rather then the BDE API it should be pretty easy switch the app to using one of the many alternative database engines available.
As for the BDE, the only good thing about it is that encouraged so many 3rd party developers to create replacements for it.