You take a telescope and turn it around backwards and look at Wikipedia. Then, while it is very small you reach out with the tweezers, pick it up and put it in the little box. Close the box and put the telescope away.
NCR Corporation trademarked/copywrited the words "Tower" and "Mini-Tower" for computers back about the time the PC started. When they went after infringers, the press and editorials made such an uproar about the 'big guy going after the little guys' that they dropped the enforcement. Now, years later, it is just another word with no value.
My Win-XP OS needs loads of CPU and RAM to be as fast as the previous generation of computers.;-)
My guess is that the programmers at MS are innovative enough to come up with an OS that loads down all 8 cores to a crawl so that we never see the speed advantage.
I have been reading these comments and I am convinced a lot of you "cannot see the forest because of all the trees around you." Sure we can look back and see all those major hardware developments from Bell Labs and the others. However, it took years of evolutionary development from the original Germanium bipolar transistors that were confined to low frequencies to the various mosfet gigaHertz transistors of today.
Just 35 years ago our computers were mostly text based 80 characters per line, encription was poor, pictures were mostly dots placed on a line, and internet was all UNIX. Printers were thermal and almost non-existant.
Today I type on a remote keyboard to a wireless laptop with a 3GHz processor that can send highly encripted secret pictures to a remote printer that interfaces to a photographic process for full maximum lifetime prints.
Where are your "two engineers in a garage"? Look at Linux, Foxfire, Opera, Ubuntu, Openoffice. The software industry is so close to most of you and it moves so fast that you don't realize how much it has advanced through both innovation and revolutionary thinking. I am a hardware design engineer, not a progammer, so I have to look at things from my side of the fence.
Microsoft may not be getting much of a return on their investment right now, and we can always say that they did a poor job up front, but the transistor was not running at 4+ gigaHertz for many years either. So I say, instead of dismissing software as insignificant, just look at where we are today compared with the Radio Shack TRS-80, and the various UNIX machines of the late '70s. Take and give credit where it is due. I dislike MS because they have managed to destroy a lot along the way in their rush to make money at the expense of better computing, but to be truthful, things like security and interoperatibility were not the big issue bach then.
The RFID "tag" used for anti-theft in stores is nothing but a magnetostrictive strip. Such a device (but much smaller) could easily be embedded in a sponge or surgical pads. RFID chips that send back data are tiny, but the antenna used is larger. That determines the distance to the detector.
Some comments here talk about having the doctor take more time or do counts of sponges, instruments, etc,. After an hour or more operation where I am bleeding, I would prefer that the doctor hurry a little. I also understand how a small blood coverred pad that looks very much like tissue can easily be overlooked in the rush to complete a life-saving operation.
A few years ago, a fraternity pledge was required to drink a very large amount of water and died as a result.
Quick thirst quencher! Last summer, after working outside in the yard on a hot summer day, I came in to get a drink. I wanted a cola, but the only thing in my refridgerator was a bottle from Greece (daughter's boyfriend) that looked like sprite and I do not read greek. I took a large drink and the second swallow came to a screeching halt and my throut said, NO MORE! Turned out to be a strong alcoholic beverage of some type. Cured my thirst, but water was needed to kill the taste.
I have an old Visioneer scanner that just might meet your requirements. It scans each time I access it and it scans on demand also. Well, sometimes it won't scan at all, but after all, it's not that new anymore. I am not sure it will scan for viruses since I have not had one in a while, and anyways they are really teeny-tiny. I tried cookie crumbs and it seemed to scan them ok.
One other thing. I think you want a free one. Just come by after 5:00, and I will give you this one.
I read through these comments and realize that a lot of these readers still do not understand the real issue here. MS OWNS THE OPERATING SYSTEM!! Google does not! Microsoft provides Walmart, Office Max, Sears, Radio Shack, TigerDirect, (and the list goes on) with the PRE-INSTALLED operating system. The vast majority of users have no idea how to install ANYTHING. They are stuck with using what is pre-loaded, and if it works fairly well, they don't complain.
It does not matter if Google or MSN or Jeeves or any other search engine comes on FireFox or Opera. FireFox and Opera are not part of the pre-loaded OS and therefore are used by only a very small percentage of users.
The real issue is MICROSOFT "CONTROLS" THE COMPUTER for most people. Whatever is put there stays there, and good or bad, is the only thing they are able to use. That is what is referred to as "Monopolistic Power". This is a re-enactment of the NETSCAPE issue and the present WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER issue. MS is not keeping people from using other search engines. They are just taking advantage of the fact that most people are only able to use what is provided, and by bundling it with the OS, they can say it is free.
Since our present administration will not even slap the hand of MS anymore, the only recourse Google will have is to promote by writing a program that loads itself and deletes the MS search engine. Most people would allow that. Like AOL, Google can distribute free CD's in Wallmart and major groceries and even contract with the US Post Office to have CD's distrubuted there.
you hear a lot of people actually discussing the exciting new features. Expose, Automator, Dashboard... these are new things that people find interesting and innovative.
Whose water fountain have you been standing around?
fill their lives with it, be it drugs, or religion, or games, or porn.
As the children's program says,"One of these things is not like the others". One is a way of life or living, the others are something you do, and some readers here may not be able to tell the difference.
Most religions have a strong belief in God or a god. As I jokingly say, "Some Christians will 'beat you to death with their Bibles' if you don't believe as they do" (The Bible does not suggest that, but that is how you see your ex-pothead friend.)
Followers of other religions will blow themselves up with a bomb in order to kill "non-believers" (Their Koran or other book of religion does not suggest that either! - I am told.)
Religion is not an addiction. It may seem that way to observers, but it is a way to live. The Christian religion is based on love of God and Jesus and caring for other people, both Christians and non-Christians.
There are and will always be fanatics that cannot accept others if they interpret their religion (Bible or Koran or other book) differently. They will start their own church, ostrasize some from their congregation, and even kill them. An example is the man in Afganistan that was to be killed for converting from Islam to Christianity. Jesus was killed because he did not go along with the church leaders of the day, not because he was healing and helping people.
Drugs, games and porn fill an emptiness in our lives by filling up our time. Religion gives us something to live for and for Christians -at least-, something worthwhile to do with our lives.
As I put three kids through college, I thought I was paying everyone's salary, and became a proud sponser of Domino's and Chic-Fila, but you need a refresher course in college funding.
Without grant money from the alumni, government and industry, the colleges would grind to a halt.
25,000 students and $15,000 annual tuition is $375 million. The university has an annual budget of over $3 billion.
Just last week I heard a department chairperson say that if a new professor cannot generate over $100,000 in sponsered income, the department probably cannot afford to retain them.
The internet Explorer, launched in the late '80s has reached and surpassed the far edges of the internet system and continues to feedback data long after the original design team had projected its demise.
Although recent technology has rendered it not so effective as scientists thought at launch time, and even though the technology should have been abandoned years ago, it continues to hang in there and send data (although often corrupted)across the internet universe. The inventors had insisted on shelving the old technology and building a completly new system, but top management insisted that anything that could still be operational after surviving so many software upgades could not be all bad.
The management consensus is that by adding a few enhancements to avoid backward compatibility, and a new GUI to make it look different from the old familiar, the next system can be marketed as new technology and launched to the OEMs as a new system that can go well beyond the fabled internet Pluto.
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How much did you say the prize would be?
NCR Corporation trademarked/copywrited the words "Tower" and "Mini-Tower" for computers back about the time the PC started. When they went after infringers, the press and editorials made such an uproar about the 'big guy going after the little guys' that they dropped the enforcement. Now, years later, it is just another word with no value.
Hand me the scotch tape will you, and I'll put this on the bulletin board.
Does your company have any openings? My ex-wife is looking for a job.
I had the same problem with my "Color Computer" and I don't think I'll buy one of those again either.
My guess is that the programmers at MS are innovative enough to come up with an OS that loads down all 8 cores to a crawl so that we never see the speed advantage.
Just 35 years ago our computers were mostly text based 80 characters per line, encription was poor, pictures were mostly dots placed on a line, and internet was all UNIX. Printers were thermal and almost non-existant.
Today I type on a remote keyboard to a wireless laptop with a 3GHz processor that can send highly encripted secret pictures to a remote printer that interfaces to a photographic process for full maximum lifetime prints.
Where are your "two engineers in a garage"? Look at Linux, Foxfire, Opera, Ubuntu, Openoffice. The software industry is so close to most of you and it moves so fast that you don't realize how much it has advanced through both innovation and revolutionary thinking. I am a hardware design engineer, not a progammer, so I have to look at things from my side of the fence.
Microsoft may not be getting much of a return on their investment right now, and we can always say that they did a poor job up front, but the transistor was not running at 4+ gigaHertz for many years either. So I say, instead of dismissing software as insignificant, just look at where we are today compared with the Radio Shack TRS-80, and the various UNIX machines of the late '70s. Take and give credit where it is due. I dislike MS because they have managed to destroy a lot along the way in their rush to make money at the expense of better computing, but to be truthful, things like security and interoperatibility were not the big issue bach then.
Some comments here talk about having the doctor take more time or do counts of sponges, instruments, etc,. After an hour or more operation where I am bleeding, I would prefer that the doctor hurry a little. I also understand how a small blood coverred pad that looks very much like tissue can easily be overlooked in the rush to complete a life-saving operation.
I think that is right. I could not think of the word yesterday.
Quick thirst quencher! Last summer, after working outside in the yard on a hot summer day, I came in to get a drink. I wanted a cola, but the only thing in my refridgerator was a bottle from Greece (daughter's boyfriend) that looked like sprite and I do not read greek. I took a large drink and the second swallow came to a screeching halt and my throut said, NO MORE! Turned out to be a strong alcoholic beverage of some type. Cured my thirst, but water was needed to kill the taste.
Now let me get this straight! If you drink too much water, it makes you feel thirsty and you will die.
If you can't get enough water, it makes you feel thirsty and you will die.
OMG!, It's not the water at all! It's that thirsty feeling!!!
I don't think you understand that what you meant to say is not what I heard!
I'll drink to that!
You should cut down on the "H" 's to control your drunken laughing a bit.
Say!,.... Where you from?
One other thing. I think you want a free one. Just come by after 5:00, and I will give you this one.
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Oh! What? You said anti-virus??
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Never Mind!
It's just you!
No wonder I can't understand those new Chinese students! They are still talking with lowercase letters!
It does not matter if Google or MSN or Jeeves or any other search engine comes on FireFox or Opera. FireFox and Opera are not part of the pre-loaded OS and therefore are used by only a very small percentage of users.
The real issue is MICROSOFT "CONTROLS" THE COMPUTER for most people. Whatever is put there stays there, and good or bad, is the only thing they are able to use. That is what is referred to as "Monopolistic Power". This is a re-enactment of the NETSCAPE issue and the present WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER issue. MS is not keeping people from using other search engines. They are just taking advantage of the fact that most people are only able to use what is provided, and by bundling it with the OS, they can say it is free.
Since our present administration will not even slap the hand of MS anymore, the only recourse Google will have is to promote by writing a program that loads itself and deletes the MS search engine. Most people would allow that. Like AOL, Google can distribute free CD's in Wallmart and major groceries and even contract with the US Post Office to have CD's distrubuted there.
Whose water fountain have you been standing around?
As the children's program says,"One of these things is not like the others". One is a way of life or living, the others are something you do, and some readers here may not be able to tell the difference.
Most religions have a strong belief in God or a god. As I jokingly say, "Some Christians will 'beat you to death with their Bibles' if you don't believe as they do" (The Bible does not suggest that, but that is how you see your ex-pothead friend.)
Followers of other religions will blow themselves up with a bomb in order to kill "non-believers" (Their Koran or other book of religion does not suggest that either! - I am told.)
Religion is not an addiction. It may seem that way to observers, but it is a way to live. The Christian religion is based on love of God and Jesus and caring for other people, both Christians and non-Christians.
There are and will always be fanatics that cannot accept others if they interpret their religion (Bible or Koran or other book) differently. They will start their own church, ostrasize some from their congregation, and even kill them. An example is the man in Afganistan that was to be killed for converting from Islam to Christianity. Jesus was killed because he did not go along with the church leaders of the day, not because he was healing and helping people.
Drugs, games and porn fill an emptiness in our lives by filling up our time. Religion gives us something to live for and for Christians -at least-, something worthwhile to do with our lives.
Are you quoting from some statistics, or is this based on the two women you know?
Conversly, since you cannot teach, I guess you can!
Without grant money from the alumni, government and industry, the colleges would grind to a halt.
25,000 students and $15,000 annual tuition is $375 million. The university has an annual budget of over $3 billion.
Just last week I heard a department chairperson say that if a new professor cannot generate over $100,000 in sponsered income, the department probably cannot afford to retain them.
Many people don't realize how annoying it is for the teacher to keep on talking while you are trying to see the pron on the laptop two rows ahead.
Although recent technology has rendered it not so effective as scientists thought at launch time, and even though the technology should have been abandoned years ago, it continues to hang in there and send data (although often corrupted)across the internet universe. The inventors had insisted on shelving the old technology and building a completly new system, but top management insisted that anything that could still be operational after surviving so many software upgades could not be all bad.
The management consensus is that by adding a few enhancements to avoid backward compatibility, and a new GUI to make it look different from the old familiar, the next system can be marketed as new technology and launched to the OEMs as a new system that can go well beyond the fabled internet Pluto.