Well, maybe as a fashion statement, but not as wearable technology.
As a boy, I could not imagine that the "Dick Tracy" wrist watch two-way radio (think cell phone) would ever become a reality.
My first radio was a "wrist radio" with earphones and a trailing wire antenna - Back in 1956. Again not much of a fashion statement, but really was the envy of my friends.
Three days ago, I was trying to untangle a spool of bare wire used for thermocouples. By the time I got through, I had enough pieces to wire my pants. With a little luck, I might even get tangled up with someone like #15. Normally I just get a short circuit.
I was a loyal customer of my community Safeway until they started using shopper cards. I gave false info on the cards, but do not shop there anymore, but if I do, I ask them to swipe their store card for me (and they do). If I go to a store (Winn-Dixie)that does not have a Store-Card when I get to the cashier, I just leave the groceries and instruct them to tell the manager why. The Walmart Super-Store is about 1 mile further and does not use cards. I shop there mostly.
Perhaps you should inquire for a friend in the US and work with them to have the unit purchased and shipped. For a few dollars, many people will help out. Maybe contact someone on ebay who has sold a lot of items and has a high rating.
Our country is based on democracy, and free speech is an added bonus. If more than 50% of people object to something, then a real democracy would not allow it. Issues like this generate a lot of pro and con religious comments, but the real issue is how we manage a democracy and free speech at the same time. I don't think anyone has any misgivings about how the framers of the constitution felt about profanity in public. Free speech is not freedom to offend, regardless of your convictions about free speech. The major problem is how to define things to allow freedom and democracy at the same time. Give it a try instead of ranting. Maybe you can find a universally accepted defination.
The simplest wiring? When one quits they all quit and you spend a day inserting one drive at a time till the system starts and tells you to notify MS since your XP is seeing a change in configuration.
My Mitsubishi Diamonte is 10 years old. Nearest dealer is 40 mi. Towing cost $100. Local shop cannot access computer after 10 years. I have to take time from work and rent a car if I need anything that requires access to the on-board computer. After an auto is no longer in warranty, the codes should be released IMHO, but I do like the idea of me owning everything necessary to keep my car in best operating condition - All diagnostics should be available to my choice of service shop. (Dealer quoted $3000 for total service and repairs. Local shop repaired for $300. - computer not needed for main repairs.) Go Figure!
You have no idea how technically impaired the average user is. Try teaching a course on using the internet to people over 40 years old. Your first session will include learning the difference in "left click" and "right click", and the meaning of "click on it" and "double click on it". When you complete your 12 week course of one hour per week with homework, you will not even consider telling someone that "If people don't want to go look for alternatives then that's their problem." However, you will feel good, because almost half of the class will have learned how to print a page from the internet. "Download"? You might as well have asked for the conversion factor between Teslas and Gauss. Now, with that information in hand, go to the Quicktime web site and try to get the latest plug-in that is needed.
Now, without looking back, close your eyes and try to spell "rediculous".
If all/. readers will send me $20, I think that will be enough to buy enough of SCO to get the FUD stopped or slowed. If it doesn't bring in enough cash, then maybe we can buy a universal license for all Linux users. Then again, if I get the response I expect, I might be able to make a trip to the dollar store.
You're new at this aren't you! You should have read the article I responded to. Instead of guessing, you should have passed along the results of the SEC filings and how many years you have worked with cost reduction in a large company of 60,000 or so people. The numbers are real, they are just not MicroSoft's.
If the first one costs 10 million and you have 10 million customers, you recover your cost with the first $1.00 per customer.
Now if you charged $101.00 each, you have a profit of $100 dollars per piece of plastic minus shipping and handling, still about $1 BILLION profit.
Now if you make an incremental upgrade that requires only one million up front investment, and you still sell that to your customers by ingeneously forcing an upgrade, you now make another $1 BILLION profit, but the cost per disk is now TEN CENTS. Now if your customer base is 50 million people and your sell price is anywhere from $100 to $300, you only have to do this a few times to be rich as Bill Gates.
For a second there, I was in fear that someone had a patent on that invisible plane that is mind controlled. I wonder if I just anticipated a later/. story! I think I had one of those planes, but with mind control accuracy at only 95 percent, I think I crashed it.
The local public utility has been tracking my water usage for years -- and they make me pay them to do it!! Worse than that, the long distance phone company not only tracks my phone calls, but they even track who I call and how long I am on the phone. My grocery store tries to track my grocery buying, but nobody lives at that address. However, Walmart does not have those stupid "shopper cards", so I shop there. Heck, I even think/. even keeps a record of when I respond and what I respond to. You can't hide!
I had to enable cookies, shut down my firewall and even try IE. I still could not get to the Salon site. I welcomed the copy of the article, and SALON can just stuff it. I would not have even looked at their site twice anyway.
As I understand it, the explanation is simply that the public was given pictures using filters intended for scientific research. This alters the printed colors. At this point NASA should have given more pictures that produce colors closely matching what the human eye sees. With color chips and photoshop(tm), along with a picture taken on earth before the mission, even I could come up with a presentable picture.
That isn't sunny south Florida up there you know. At -40 degrees F (or C), the fewer electronics you have to keep going, the better. I don't know if that is part of the reason at all, but these are not simple commercial off-the-shelf cameras.
My first thought was that the pattern looked a lot like the random pattern of one of those automatic floor vacuum cleaners - with a paint can strapped to it just before you let it go. - Have your friend try it at their house first. Momma might not be too happy!
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Well, maybe as a fashion statement, but not as wearable technology. As a boy, I could not imagine that the "Dick Tracy" wrist watch two-way radio (think cell phone) would ever become a reality. My first radio was a "wrist radio" with earphones and a trailing wire antenna - Back in 1956. Again not much of a fashion statement, but really was the envy of my friends.
Three days ago, I was trying to untangle a spool of bare wire used for thermocouples. By the time I got through, I had enough pieces to wire my pants. With a little luck, I might even get tangled up with someone like #15.
Normally I just get a short circuit.
Winn Dixie's management refused to scan their own card, and would not give the discount. So I left them with the groceries.
I was a loyal customer of my community Safeway until they started using shopper cards. I gave false info on the cards, but do not shop there anymore, but if I do, I ask them to swipe their store card for me (and they do). If I go to a store (Winn-Dixie)that does not have a Store-Card when I get to the cashier, I just leave the groceries and instruct them to tell the manager why.
The Walmart Super-Store is about 1 mile further and does not use cards. I shop there mostly.
Perhaps you should inquire for a friend in the US and work with them to have the unit purchased and shipped. For a few dollars, many people will help out. Maybe contact someone on ebay who has sold a lot of items and has a high rating.
Our country is based on democracy, and free speech is an added bonus. If more than 50% of people object to something, then a real democracy would not allow it. Issues like this generate a lot of pro and con religious comments, but the real issue is how we manage a democracy and free speech at the same time. I don't think anyone has any misgivings about how the framers of the constitution felt about profanity in public. Free speech is not freedom to offend, regardless of your convictions about free speech. The major problem is how to define things to allow freedom and democracy at the same time. Give it a try instead of ranting. Maybe you can find a universally accepted defination.
The simplest wiring? When one quits they all quit and you spend a day inserting one drive at a time till the system starts and tells you to notify MS since your XP is seeing a change in configuration.
My Mitsubishi Diamonte is 10 years old. Nearest dealer is 40 mi. Towing cost $100. Local shop cannot access computer after 10 years. I have to take time from work and rent a car if I need anything that requires access to the on-board computer. After an auto is no longer in warranty, the codes should be released IMHO, but I do like the idea of me owning everything necessary to keep my car in best operating condition - All diagnostics should be available to my choice of service shop. (Dealer quoted $3000 for total service and repairs. Local shop repaired for $300. - computer not needed for main repairs.) Go Figure!
You used revenant in your sentence. I had to look it up to see what it meant. Then, after a long absence my memory returned.
However, you will feel good, because almost half of the class will have learned how to print a page from the internet. "Download"? You might as well have asked for the conversion factor between Teslas and Gauss. Now, with that information in hand, go to the Quicktime web site and try to get the latest plug-in that is needed.
Now, without looking back, close your eyes and try to spell "rediculous".
If all /. readers will send me $20, I think that will be enough to buy enough of SCO to get the FUD stopped or slowed. If it doesn't bring in enough cash, then maybe we can buy a universal license for all Linux users. Then again, if I get the response I expect, I might be able to make a trip to the dollar store.
We were working on that, but the Orkin Man came by and erased all our originals.
You're new at this aren't you! You should have read the article I responded to. Instead of guessing, you should have passed along the results of the SEC filings and how many years you have worked with cost reduction in a large company of 60,000 or so people.
The numbers are real, they are just not MicroSoft's.
Now if you charged $101.00 each, you have a profit of $100 dollars per piece of plastic minus shipping and handling, still about $1 BILLION profit.
Now if you make an incremental upgrade that requires only one million up front investment, and you still sell that to your customers by ingeneously forcing an upgrade, you now make another $1 BILLION profit, but the cost per disk is now TEN CENTS.
Now if your customer base is 50 million people and your sell price is anywhere from $100 to $300, you only have to do this a few times to be rich as Bill Gates.
For a second there, I was in fear that someone had a patent on that invisible plane that is mind controlled. I wonder if I just anticipated a later /. story! I think I had one of those planes, but with mind control accuracy at only 95 percent, I think I crashed it.
What's his name?
So that explains all that spam! Wait, I can't feel the wires. They must have used wireless devices! Help, I'm not sure if this is really me!
The local public utility has been tracking my water usage for years -- and they make me pay them to do it!! Worse than that, the long distance phone company not only tracks my phone calls, but they even track who I call and how long I am on the phone. My grocery store tries to track my grocery buying, but nobody lives at that address. However, Walmart does not have those stupid "shopper cards", so I shop there. Heck, I even think /. even keeps a record of when I respond and what I respond to.
You can't hide!
I had to enable cookies, shut down my firewall and even try IE. I still could not get to the Salon site. I welcomed the copy of the article, and SALON can just stuff it. I would not have even looked at their site twice anyway.
As I understand it, the explanation is simply that the public was given pictures using filters intended for scientific research. This alters the printed colors. At this point NASA should have given more pictures that produce colors closely matching what the human eye sees. With color chips and photoshop(tm), along with a picture taken on earth before the mission, even I could come up with a presentable picture.
It's funny when you get modded informative when you're TRYING to be funny. It's sad when you're trying to be informative and get modded funny.
That isn't sunny south Florida up there you know. At -40 degrees F (or C), the fewer electronics you have to keep going, the better. I don't know if that is part of the reason at all, but these are not simple commercial off-the-shelf cameras.
Worse than that, I was almost out the door running for the ice cream truck before I realized it was a cell phone!
My first thought was that the pattern looked a lot like the random pattern of one of those automatic floor vacuum cleaners - with a paint can strapped to it just before you let it go. - Have your friend try it at their house first. Momma might not be too happy!