Yeah but imagine that the majority starts to watch and talk about it and then you, the geek, won't know the latest twist in the scifi-show. They'd make you rip your membership card and remove the tinfoil from your propeller hat right there.
Don't these businesses realize that when they stop paying the american people to build their products, that the american people they rely on to BUY their products wont have any money because they pushed all the jobs overseas? What will McDonalds do when McDonalds are all automated and nobody has any money to eat at McDonalds? When a company moves all its staff but executive off shore, aren't they removing that much money in the very market they want to compete in, therefore hurting themselves in the end?
Yeah, but once the salaries in India become competitive, the business has already reputation as "Indian" business and they can move to that market, much like today when it's huge benefit for a business to me "made in the U.S." it will be the same from india, but then the sorry businesses who are late with the outsourcing will have to move their businesses to U.S.A. to get lower price for their products in the high value Indian market.
Well how about if software vendors start buying the chipmakers once their business becomess less profitable (like when regular users realize that in order to receive spam they don't need to upgrade the 5GHz beast). Then they would lock users in with their better software, and sell household-software with free hardware. (software that keeps the milk in the right temperature and controls the lights, heat entertainment-center etc.)
Well Safari on My iBook shows the exported.ppt files just great. Don't know what they are supposed to look, but I've not seen any inconsistancies.
Well my experience is rather limited as we have only one class with such files, but despite the warnings by the author saying that the files wont work on any other browser my browser works just fine.
Well having 6 set of wires don't sound too good, but how about a market where there are only 1 set of lines, but many providers who buy electricity from global electricity markets, pretty much like any other commodity, and then sell shares of that to users. You would have one set of wires and you could choose the company that supplies the energy.
You could have wind-electricity or nuclear-only or whatever, the company would buy that amount of electricity from windmill-company and charge you according to your consumption.
That's how things work in Finland anyways. (as far as i know)
This reminds me of this. It is called Mixed Reality Pong.
Mixed Reality Pong is a mixed reality version of the classic "Pong" game. The aim of the game is to score goals by hitting a virtual ball over the other end of the game area protected by the opponent player. The game counts the goals the players have scored, and they can agree to play either for a limited amount of time, or until either of them has scored a certain amount of goals. The players can play the game with their hands or other real-world objects. The game physics simulate the behaviour of a real ball, except that the virtual ball doesn't slow down at all.
Not sure about your country, but in Finland the laptop market is mainly a business-machine market, and you bet if you can manage without latest graphics accelerator and the stuff, the business people could do well with a lightweight machine that has a long lasting battery and basic office tools.
But because corporations are more willing to pay for a good laptop, there aren't good low-end machines around. Might be because they don't want to cut their own profits, and extra 200 for support seems more reasonable on a $2000 machine than on $500 machine. I don't know. Thats what i think. I mean who would buy a 15" laptop that weighs 10 lbs if there were cheap machines that did the same stuff.
The names of the officials is public info, and even one person can affect the outcome of the vote. I'm not sure about the correct procedure when someone is caught cheating, but i'd think the vote on that location would be voided and that can affect, etc. Thinking quickly there are many ways to change the outcome. Not by much, but some times elections are terribly close.
I just hope there are logs of each vote cast, pretty much like there is in the current version, where each ballot is counted. I doubt that they are just gonna accept the machines count as it is. Well I don't know about your system, but I was counting votes in Finland last time we had an election and there were representatives of each party there and we counted the ballots and called in the result, and then they were sent for a confirmation count. There is plenty of holes to exploit in the current system, and i think rigging an election is pretty easy as it is. Of course there is the possibility of a virus that votes for people, but there was talk about email account stuff that displays a picture and asks to type in the word etc. So if there was a way to identify voter as human, i doubt there were any major problems after that.
I'd imagine that if you can automatically skip ads the industry will use part of the screen for ads, like they do on some sporting events that can't be stopped for the duration of commercial break. they have banners flying that say "buy me im 1337" etc, and product placement will be more aggressive etc, i mean broadcasters can't expect anyone to pay for commercials if anyone can skip them automatically.
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Yeah but imagine that the majority starts to watch and talk about it and then you, the geek, won't know the latest twist in the scifi-show. They'd make you rip your membership card and remove the tinfoil from your propeller hat right there.
Don't these businesses realize that when they stop paying the american people to build their products, that the american people they rely on to BUY their products wont have any money because they pushed all the jobs overseas? What will McDonalds do when McDonalds are all automated and nobody has any money to eat at McDonalds? When a company moves all its staff but executive off shore, aren't they removing that much money in the very market they want to compete in, therefore hurting themselves in the end?
Yeah, but once the salaries in India become competitive, the business has already reputation as "Indian" business and they can move to that market, much like today when it's huge benefit for a business to me "made in the U.S." it will be the same from india, but then the sorry businesses who are late with the outsourcing will have to move their businesses to U.S.A. to get lower price for their products in the high value Indian market.
Well how about if software vendors start buying the chipmakers once their business becomess less profitable (like when regular users realize that in order to receive spam they don't need to upgrade the 5GHz beast). Then they would lock users in with their better software, and sell household-software with free hardware. (software that keeps the milk in the right temperature and controls the lights, heat entertainment-center etc.)
Well Safari on My iBook shows the exported .ppt files just great. Don't know what they are supposed to look, but I've not seen any inconsistancies.
Well my experience is rather limited as we have only one class with such files, but despite the warnings by the author saying that the files wont work on any other browser my browser works just fine.
Well having 6 set of wires don't sound too good, but how about a market where there are only 1 set of lines, but many providers who buy electricity from global electricity markets, pretty much like any other commodity, and then sell shares of that to users. You would have one set of wires and you could choose the company that supplies the energy.
You could have wind-electricity or nuclear-only or whatever, the company would buy that amount of electricity from windmill-company and charge you according to your consumption.
That's how things work in Finland anyways. (as far as i know)
This reminds me of this. It is called Mixed Reality Pong.
Mixed Reality Pong is a mixed reality version of the classic "Pong" game. The aim of the game is to score goals by hitting a virtual ball over the other end of the game area protected by the opponent player. The game counts the goals the players have scored, and they can agree to play either for a limited amount of time, or until either of them has scored a certain amount of goals.
The players can play the game with their hands or other real-world objects. The game physics simulate the behaviour of a real ball, except that the virtual ball doesn't slow down at all.
Not sure about your country, but in Finland the laptop market is mainly a business-machine market, and you bet if you can manage without latest graphics accelerator and the stuff, the business people could do well with a lightweight machine that has a long lasting battery and basic office tools.
But because corporations are more willing to pay for a good laptop, there aren't good low-end machines around. Might be because they don't want to cut their own profits, and extra 200 for support seems more reasonable on a $2000 machine than on $500 machine. I don't know. Thats what i think. I mean who would buy a 15" laptop that weighs 10 lbs if there were cheap machines that did the same stuff.
The names of the officials is public info, and even one person can affect the outcome of the vote. I'm not sure about the correct procedure when someone is caught cheating, but i'd think the vote on that location would be voided and that can affect, etc. Thinking quickly there are many ways to change the outcome. Not by much, but some times elections are terribly close.
I just hope there are logs of each vote cast, pretty much like there is in the current version, where each ballot is counted. I doubt that they are just gonna accept the machines count as it is. Well I don't know about your system, but I was counting votes in Finland last time we had an election and there were representatives of each party there and we counted the ballots and called in the result, and then they were sent for a confirmation count. There is plenty of holes to exploit in the current system, and i think rigging an election is pretty easy as it is. Of course there is the possibility of a virus that votes for people, but there was talk about email account stuff that displays a picture and asks to type in the word etc. So if there was a way to identify voter as human, i doubt there were any major problems after that.
I'd imagine that if you can automatically skip ads the industry will use part of the screen for ads, like they do on some sporting events that can't be stopped for the duration of commercial break. they have banners flying that say "buy me im 1337" etc, and product placement will be more aggressive etc, i mean broadcasters can't expect anyone to pay for commercials if anyone can skip them automatically.