How is having something that is projected into your field of vision legal for use while driving? I realize there are cars that project your speed onto the windshield but that is the projection of a 1in high font of 1-2 digits at the bottom of the windshield, and it doesn't move when you move your head...
I'm especially concerned when the author states he has to put his hand up to block the road to see what's on the Google glass's screen..
I'm an author of technical books, and many people have asked me to distribute my books in an unprotected PDF format. If I do this then I will nolonger get paid for the copy. Which means there's less incentive to write more. As people will want the next book given away for free.
Sure I can make money from speaking or consulting engagements, but the point is to get paid for all my efforts. Surely you get paid for yours at your job, or does your mgmt as you to wor for a few unpaid weeks or months a year? As a content creator why shouldn't I?
I agree. I set up a HTPC on an old mac mini running Plex, for just that reason, Plex seemed to be the best HTPC app out there and was free, so I picked a platform that would allow me to run it.
I could have run it in a VM, on linux, but then I'm wasting hardware resources on a system that I want to be lower power and quiet. I personally like the fact that my wife can hit the power button, and 15seconds later be watching a movie.
Dump the religion out the window and use the tool that works for you, if you want to cram XBMC on OS/2, go right ahead. Besides, I think some people just want to say they use linux to impress others. Why do you think half the posts around here start with "I use Linux at..." or "I've been a linux user for X years..."
I've got quite a few friends who are anti-nuclear power and they constantly site Chernobyl, 3-mile Island and Fukushima...
The problem is that they refuse to travel to enjoy the fresh air" in Beijing. I spent 3 weeks there in February, and let me tell you, after about 3 days there my nose was constantly congested. Within about 4 days of returning to the US, it cleared up. That air is not too fresh.
Also on the few days when it is clear there, the Japanese complain because all the smog has blown it's way into Japan.
Instead of taking a 60minute meal break. Eat your lunch in 30minutes and then go for a 30minute walk. It doesn't have to be right after you eat but insert the 30minute walk sometime in the day.
Block that 30minute walk out in your calendar so people can't (or will try to avoid) scheduling a meeting/concall over that time.
It's absurd if your boss expects you to sit at your desk for 9 hours a day (8hrs of working + 1 hr lunch).
Ok. So I'm assuming this is for people that aren't supporting datacenter based equipment. Y'know the guys that have to plug in thousands of powercords...
So if you're outfitting your cube/desk area, how many keyboards and power cords do you go through? Also, do most FB employees standardize on the 'vending machine' keyboard, or do they have their own personal preference?
I played Diablo 1 and D2 and thoroughly enjoyed them. D3 came out and in the beginning I enjoyed it. Then I realized that to get better gear I had to visit the Gold Auction house.. so I would put my stuff up for auction and try to buy new/better stuff. 99% of the time I couldn't move my old stuff b/c there was always something better in the auction house....
Which would be great if I had tons of gold... so how do you get more gold?
1. Grind grind grind... kill the same dungeons over and over again. Pickup the gold, and whatever trash you find, sell it to the merchant for more gold. Grind grind grind. 2. Win the lottery. Something drops that actually worth something in the gold auction house. 3. Buy gold with real money.
The problem here is that gold in itself in D3 is basically worthless. I can recall when certain items were 10million gold. Then a few weeks later those same items were 40million gold. Are they more rare? Nope. There's just more gold available in game. So let's say you sold that item for 10million because you couldn't use it (wrong class). And you go on vacation for a few weeks. An equivalent item for your class would now be 40million gold. So now how do you get 30 million more gold?
Grind grind grind or hope something drops for you or say f-ck it and pay Blizzard a few bucks to get 40 million gold. Knowing that in a month's time that instead of you paying $5 to get the item, you'd need to pay $10 because you'd need 2x as much gold.
This is why I stopped playing D3. I realized in order to continue to advance I was playing to get gold for the auction house.
I uninstalled back in October and haven't gone back since.
I work in sales for another company selling servers. It's all in the information in the RFP. Do you think the original requirements document sent out specified individually what each police station or library would require? Never. There's very few employees out there in public or private sector that would go down to that detail.
Oftentimes the purchaser sees the budget they have available to them and hears the age old mantra "use it or lose it." So they buy the biggest and baddest piece of IT gear they can.
The case that I see now is with servers. Let's say some enterprise is building out a new datacenter using vmware and they want to operationally standardize on a single model. A common practice. So they go out a buy a 1000 Dell/HP/IBM servers. They don't go out and buy 17 of model X, 25 of model Y, etc etc all with different memory/disk configurations depending on the specific workload that will be put on each individual server.
If the RFPs specified every single requirement for every single location all customers would get a more accurate proposal. However, they don't.
How many people download or use Open Office because it is free?
Probably a large percentage of them since that's one of it's redeeming features. Now if OO had the same price as MSOffice, I bet that number would drop dramatically.
If you take the product acquisition cost out of the equation you're now left with acquisition costs which might not be in OO's favor.
Cost to retrain people Cost to migrate existing systems/processes/applications to OO Support costs (IT, support vendors etc..)
$150/seat might not be much if you have business critical applications like telephony/voice/chat that are integrated in with your office suite.
Yeesh, and here I thought you'd have found a Sparc Center 2000 or other old sun boxes. Perhaps something that ran SunOS and not Solaris... or something newer with SBUS like an e4500...
However, on a more serious note...you could get a nice macbook pro....and install VMWare on it...and get a OEM copy of Win 7 (I still seem them on newegg for a decent price)...and run it in a VM.
How was this informative?
The op wanted to get a laptop without paying for a win8 license.. so he can run win7...
So let's see what you're suggesting..
Buy an Apple laptop: OSX license. vmware: vmware license windows 7: windows license.
Congrats you have suggested that the op double the price of their laptop before buying any applications...
You realize that discoveries like his only come very rarely as he discussed new areas of science. How many other physicists out there were around Einstein's time?
I'll mention an invention that is "ground breaking" and done in my lifetime.
100Gb Ethernet.
Growing up, I had access to a 300baud modem. That's 300 tones per second. So if one "tone" equated to a bit, then this modem could send 300 bits per second.
100Gb is 107,374,182,400 bits.
or the equivalent of 357,913,942 300baud modems or more modems than the population of the United States (~313m).
Someone had to discover the technologies and methods required to be able to transmit multiple signals at 12.5Gb/sec, and how to transmit multiple wavelengths down the same copper cable or optical fibre without interference...
Hard drive technology? When I graduated from college, the disk arrays I worked on had 9, 18 and 36GB drives in them. So a TB was a lot of storage. Now with advances in hard drive technology like GMR we have multi Terabyte hard drives in our laptops.
Go back and read the newspapers on microfiche of when Einstein made his discoveries. I doubt people were throwing parades in his honor.
Broaden your scope into what areas you're looking at for "discoveries". Other well known "inventors":
Werner VonBraun / Robert Goddard Jonas Salk - discovered the cure for Polio Stephen Hawking... Edward Jenner -- Discovered vaccinations...
Is google giving these plus all the support costs away for free?
Both my wife and my sister are elementary school teaches, and they struggle to get basic school supplies. Parent's are asked at the beginning of the year to have each child provide reams of paper, pencils and even cleaning supplies for the classroom.
They even have to buy their own dry erase markers...
To think we put men on the moon and brought them safely back using people that grew up studying books... but in this age of instant gratification... youtube will win out...
Blizzard wants to be able to say if you have XYZ configuration, then it will work. If it doesn't work, then here's our 1-800 number, our email support system etc etc... for which you are entitled to contact since you bought the game and your system meets the requirements.
I run SC2 under win7 without any problems, however, if I installed it and it crashed upon startup I could call them up and have a Blizzard tech provide me with assistance. If I called them up and said, "I'm running this under the win32 emulator that's part of OS/2 Warp, they'd politely tell them that it is an unsupported and untested configuration and might give me some sort of "best effort" support, which wouldn't equate to much and then eventually refer me to some forums...
Imagine the uproar that would take place if they released something for Ubuntu version X, and all the people running either version Y or some other distribution would flame Blizzard... "You're not supporting *my* distribution..."
So the Chinese are well known for their herbal and alternative medicines in which they consume various plants, herbs, minerals and yes animals for all sorts of cures....
Now they're being told that their national symbol is a source of medical healing...
And what reason would that be? To protect others from the verbal barrage? If nobody wants to read Linus's tirade, then nobody has to; it's easy to avert one's attention elsewhere.
You do this type of activity behind closed doors because to improve an employee that is having a problem, forcing them into public shaming isn't going to help the situation nor inspire the employee to improve. It's like that old saying, "The beatings will continue until morale improves."
This stuff doesn't work in a professional setting. Children yell, scream and cry when they can't express themselves. Linus should be setting an example for other developer leaders. Tantrums are for kids.
Do you think he talks this way to his wife and kids?
*in front of the entire extended family* "$wife, you really fucked up Christmas dinner tonight. The ham is too salty and the potatoes are dry. We should have just ordered pizza instead so that my parents can have something to eat that is edible instead of this crap you call dinner."
He would never do that. He'd wait until after dinner and behind *closed doors*, he would tell her politely what was wrong with the food she made. He'd never make a big stink in front of everyone by shaming her such that her cooking improved.
Try it some time. Next time you wife/gf/sig-other/mother does something you don't like, instead of talking to them in a civilized manner, try flaming them in front of everyone else. See how far that gets you. Probably a week on the couch.
There's an old expression, "You can catch a lot more flies with a tsp of honey than a gallon of vinegar."
So it would assume that if the head of the Linux movement had rant like a child, I guess it's ok for all the other leaders of their projects, who don't have any leadership experience to follow this wonderful example.
Look Linus may be a great leader, but pompous crap like this doesn't belong. There's a reason why in management if you need to discipline/warn an employee, you do it in private not over the company mailing list.
All I can say is WTF... while the picture of the asteroid is interesting. There's a dozen photo galleries below it with photos that I would NOT want to be shared with friends and family...
For example... an "Underwear Show" "Top Bikini babes..." "Contortionist..."
Those HOA fees are ridiculous. In a new development by me it's $200 a month and there's no pool, no park, no "recreation room" nor bbq area. I think it goes for paying for the tiny strip of grass in front of each house (between the sidewalk and street) to be mowed.
Oh and we can't even put a xmas wreath on our door. I'm amazed they're allowed to put a pumpkin on their front step for Halloween...
And to think those suckers paid $800k-$1m for their homes. The HOA board members are playing Mafia over there.
I don't care if you use your smartphone/tablet to play games, read documents, write email whatever...
I just don't want to sit next to you for 6hours while you talk on the phone or use Skype/facetime, any more than I want to sit next to a screaming child for those same 6 hours.
As for the take-off and landing ban? That's what 15minutes and takeoff and 15minutes at landing? If you can't put that stuff down for 30minutes out of the entire flight, than you should stop referring to that device as your phone or tablet and start calling it your "binky" or "baby blanket" and should seek counseling.
If you have to resort to long conference calls on your cell by having it constantly plugged into the USB port on your computer to keep it from running out of power, you might as well use a landline.
I can also have my VOIP desk phone at my office relocated to my home office phone without having to physically move the phone or forward the number so phone calls from my home office phone look like they're coming from my office.
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According to their latest 10-Q filing AAPL has about $140Billion in cash and cash equivalents... and make $70B in gross profit every year...
Short of breaking them up... there's no monetary punishment you could levy on AAPL.
While they're not too big to fail, they are too big to punish.
It's like your grandmother spanking a grown elephant, it won't do any good other than make a bit of noise.
How is having something that is projected into your field of vision legal for use while driving? I realize there are cars that project your speed onto the windshield but that is the projection of a 1in high font of 1-2 digits at the bottom of the windshield, and it doesn't move when you move your head...
I'm especially concerned when the author states he has to put his hand up to block the road to see what's on the Google glass's screen..
I'm an author of technical books, and many people have asked me to distribute my books in an unprotected PDF format. If I do this then I will nolonger get paid for the copy. Which means there's less incentive to write more. As people will want the next book given away for free.
Sure I can make money from speaking or consulting engagements, but the point is to get paid for all my efforts. Surely you get paid for yours at your job, or does your mgmt as you to wor for a few unpaid weeks or months a year? As a content creator why shouldn't I?
I agree. I set up a HTPC on an old mac mini running Plex, for just that reason, Plex seemed to be the best HTPC app out there and was free, so I picked a platform that would allow me to run it.
I could have run it in a VM, on linux, but then I'm wasting hardware resources on a system that I want to be lower power and quiet. I personally like the fact that my wife can hit the power button, and 15seconds later be watching a movie.
Dump the religion out the window and use the tool that works for you, if you want to cram XBMC on OS/2, go right ahead. Besides, I think some people just want to say they use linux to impress others. Why do you think half the posts around here start with "I use Linux at..." or "I've been a linux user for X years..."
I've got quite a few friends who are anti-nuclear power and they constantly site Chernobyl, 3-mile Island and Fukushima...
The problem is that they refuse to travel to enjoy the fresh air" in Beijing. I spent 3 weeks there in February, and let me tell you, after about 3 days there my nose was constantly congested. Within about 4 days of returning to the US, it cleared up. That air is not too fresh.
Also on the few days when it is clear there, the Japanese complain because all the smog has blown it's way into Japan.
Instead of taking a 60minute meal break. Eat your lunch in 30minutes and then go for a 30minute walk. It doesn't have to be right after you eat but insert the 30minute walk sometime in the day.
Block that 30minute walk out in your calendar so people can't (or will try to avoid) scheduling a meeting/concall over that time.
It's absurd if your boss expects you to sit at your desk for 9 hours a day (8hrs of working + 1 hr lunch).
How do you wear out an optical mouse?
You do know that you can replace the batteries for wireless keyboard/mice instead of throwing them out.
Ok. So I'm assuming this is for people that aren't supporting datacenter based equipment. Y'know the guys that have to plug in thousands of powercords...
So if you're outfitting your cube/desk area, how many keyboards and power cords do you go through? Also, do most FB employees standardize on the 'vending machine' keyboard, or do they have their own personal preference?
Wow... that's really high, I did 30GB in February and I work from home, use a softphone/voip and often do video conferencing with my coworkers.
Does the average home user download 5-6 720p movies a month?
I played Diablo 1 and D2 and thoroughly enjoyed them. D3 came out and in the beginning I enjoyed it. Then I realized that to get better gear I had to visit the Gold Auction house.. so I would put my stuff up for auction and try to buy new/better stuff. 99% of the time I couldn't move my old stuff b/c there was always something better in the auction house....
Which would be great if I had tons of gold... so how do you get more gold?
1. Grind grind grind... kill the same dungeons over and over again. Pickup the gold, and whatever trash you find, sell it to the merchant for more gold. Grind grind grind.
2. Win the lottery. Something drops that actually worth something in the gold auction house.
3. Buy gold with real money.
The problem here is that gold in itself in D3 is basically worthless. I can recall when certain items were 10million gold. Then a few weeks later those same items were 40million gold. Are they more rare? Nope. There's just more gold available in game. So let's say you sold that item for 10million because you couldn't use it (wrong class). And you go on vacation for a few weeks. An equivalent item for your class would now be 40million gold. So now how do you get 30 million more gold?
Grind grind grind or hope something drops for you or say f-ck it and pay Blizzard a few bucks to get 40 million gold. Knowing that in a month's time that instead of you paying $5 to get the item, you'd need to pay $10 because you'd need 2x as much gold.
This is why I stopped playing D3. I realized in order to continue to advance I was playing to get gold for the auction house.
I uninstalled back in October and haven't gone back since.
I work in sales for another company selling servers. It's all in the information in the RFP. Do you think the original requirements document sent out specified individually what each police station or library would require? Never. There's very few employees out there in public or private sector that would go down to that detail.
Oftentimes the purchaser sees the budget they have available to them and hears the age old mantra "use it or lose it." So they buy the biggest and baddest piece of IT gear they can.
The case that I see now is with servers. Let's say some enterprise is building out a new datacenter using vmware and they want to operationally standardize on a single model. A common practice. So they go out a buy a 1000 Dell/HP/IBM servers. They don't go out and buy 17 of model X, 25 of model Y, etc etc all with different memory/disk configurations depending on the specific workload that will be put on each individual server.
If the RFPs specified every single requirement for every single location all customers would get a more accurate proposal. However, they don't.
How many people download or use Open Office because it is free?
Probably a large percentage of them since that's one of it's redeeming features. Now if OO had the same price as MSOffice, I bet that number would drop dramatically.
If you take the product acquisition cost out of the equation you're now left with acquisition costs which might not be in OO's favor.
Cost to retrain people
Cost to migrate existing systems/processes/applications to OO
Support costs (IT, support vendors etc..)
$150/seat might not be much if you have business critical applications like telephony/voice/chat that are integrated in with your office suite.
Yeesh, and here I thought you'd have found a Sparc Center 2000 or other old sun boxes. Perhaps something that ran SunOS and not Solaris... or something newer with SBUS like an e4500...
It's not old if it has multiple cores.
However, on a more serious note...you could get a nice macbook pro....and install VMWare on it...and get a OEM copy of Win 7 (I still seem them on newegg for a decent price)...and run it in a VM.
How was this informative?
The op wanted to get a laptop without paying for a win8 license.. so he can run win7...
So let's see what you're suggesting..
Buy an Apple laptop: OSX license.
vmware: vmware license
windows 7: windows license.
Congrats you have suggested that the op double the price of their laptop before buying any applications...
You realize that discoveries like his only come very rarely as he discussed new areas of science. How many other physicists out there were around Einstein's time?
I'll mention an invention that is "ground breaking" and done in my lifetime.
100Gb Ethernet.
Growing up, I had access to a 300baud modem. That's 300 tones per second. So if one "tone" equated to a bit, then this modem could send 300 bits per second.
100Gb is 107,374,182,400 bits.
or the equivalent of 357,913,942 300baud modems or more modems than the population of the United States (~313m).
Someone had to discover the technologies and methods required to be able to transmit multiple signals at 12.5Gb/sec, and how to transmit multiple wavelengths down the same copper cable or optical fibre without interference...
Hard drive technology? When I graduated from college, the disk arrays I worked on had 9, 18 and 36GB drives in them. So a TB was a lot of storage. Now with advances in hard drive technology like GMR we have multi Terabyte hard drives in our laptops.
Go back and read the newspapers on microfiche of when Einstein made his discoveries. I doubt people were throwing parades in his honor.
Broaden your scope into what areas you're looking at for "discoveries".
Other well known "inventors":
Werner VonBraun / Robert Goddard
Jonas Salk - discovered the cure for Polio
Stephen Hawking...
Edward Jenner -- Discovered vaccinations...
Is google giving these plus all the support costs away for free?
Both my wife and my sister are elementary school teaches, and they struggle to get basic school supplies. Parent's are asked at the beginning of the year to have each child provide reams of paper, pencils and even cleaning supplies for the classroom.
They even have to buy their own dry erase markers...
To think we put men on the moon and brought them safely back using people that grew up studying books... but in this age of instant gratification... youtube will win out...
Blizzard wants to be able to say if you have XYZ configuration, then it will work. If it doesn't work, then here's our 1-800 number, our email support system etc etc... for which you are entitled to contact since you bought the game and your system meets the requirements.
I run SC2 under win7 without any problems, however, if I installed it and it crashed upon startup I could call them up and have a Blizzard tech provide me with assistance. If I called them up and said, "I'm running this under the win32 emulator that's part of OS/2 Warp, they'd politely tell them that it is an unsupported and untested configuration and might give me some sort of "best effort" support, which wouldn't equate to much and then eventually refer me to some forums...
Imagine the uproar that would take place if they released something for Ubuntu version X, and all the people running either version Y or some other distribution would flame Blizzard... "You're not supporting *my* distribution..."
So the Chinese are well known for their herbal and alternative medicines in which they consume various plants, herbs, minerals and yes animals for all sorts of cures....
Now they're being told that their national symbol is a source of medical healing...
What do they do?
And what reason would that be? To protect others from the verbal barrage? If nobody wants to read Linus's tirade, then nobody has to; it's easy to avert one's attention elsewhere.
You do this type of activity behind closed doors because to improve an employee that is having a problem, forcing them into public shaming isn't going to help the situation nor inspire the employee to improve. It's like that old saying, "The beatings will continue until morale improves."
This stuff doesn't work in a professional setting. Children yell, scream and cry when they can't express themselves. Linus should be setting an example for other developer leaders. Tantrums are for kids.
Do you think he talks this way to his wife and kids?
*in front of the entire extended family* "$wife, you really fucked up Christmas dinner tonight. The ham is too salty and the potatoes are dry. We should have just ordered pizza instead so that my parents can have something to eat that is edible instead of this crap you call dinner."
He would never do that. He'd wait until after dinner and behind *closed doors*, he would tell her politely what was wrong with the food she made. He'd never make a big stink in front of everyone by shaming her such that her cooking improved.
Try it some time. Next time you wife/gf/sig-other/mother does something you don't like, instead of talking to them in a civilized manner, try flaming them in front of everyone else. See how far that gets you. Probably a week on the couch.
There's an old expression, "You can catch a lot more flies with a tsp of honey than a gallon of vinegar."
So it would assume that if the head of the Linux movement had rant like a child, I guess it's ok for all the other leaders of their projects, who don't have any leadership experience to follow this wonderful example.
Look Linus may be a great leader, but pompous crap like this doesn't belong. There's a reason why in management if you need to discipline/warn an employee, you do it in private not over the company mailing list.
Ok.. so I went to the article and saw the link to the Chinese site with the pics... http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2012-12/16/c_132043872_6.htm
All I can say is WTF... while the picture of the asteroid is interesting. There's a dozen photo galleries below it with photos that I would NOT want to be shared with friends and family...
For example... an "Underwear Show" "Top Bikini babes..." "Contortionist..."
Time to find another site without the BS...
Those HOA fees are ridiculous. In a new development by me it's $200 a month and there's no pool, no park, no "recreation room" nor bbq area. I think it goes for paying for the tiny strip of grass in front of each house (between the sidewalk and street) to be mowed.
Oh and we can't even put a xmas wreath on our door. I'm amazed they're allowed to put a pumpkin on their front step for Halloween...
And to think those suckers paid $800k-$1m for their homes. The HOA board members are playing Mafia over there.
I don't care if you use your smartphone/tablet to play games, read documents, write email whatever...
I just don't want to sit next to you for 6hours while you talk on the phone or use Skype/facetime, any more than I want to sit next to a screaming child for those same 6 hours.
As for the take-off and landing ban? That's what 15minutes and takeoff and 15minutes at landing? If you can't put that stuff down for 30minutes out of the entire flight, than you should stop referring to that device as your phone or tablet and start calling it your "binky" or "baby blanket" and should seek counseling.
If you have to resort to long conference calls on your cell by having it constantly plugged into the USB port on your computer to keep it from running out of power, you might as well use a landline.
I can also have my VOIP desk phone at my office relocated to my home office phone without having to physically move the phone or forward the number so phone calls from my home office phone look like they're coming from my office.
Also, it's crystal clear, loud and doesn't drop.
Critics have faulted the plan as celebrating a weapon of mass destruction, and have argued that the government should avoid that kind of advocacy.
I've been to plenty of Holocaust museums and memorials and I don't recall any of them focusing on a celebration but rather the educational aspect.