Seriously, a remake of Return of the Jedi with bloodthirsty vengeful Wookies would do the series much more good. I really want to see Wookies tear the arms off of stormtroopers after their enslavement.
Check the prices on Ebay. Collectors may be snapping them up, but prices aren't that high. Basically they are talking about $20 in your pocket for that old player. It's only going to make a scratch in the price of a new iPod, so you'd better hawk a lot more stuff if you want a shiny new player.
Not everyone has cash for your super expensive iPods. Everyone else gets to use the "old stuff". Not everyone needs 40GB of storage. Those of us with only a few favorites at one time can use an older player to store a couple dozen songs.
email leads to lots of problems in office communications...too much valuable knowledge ends up scattered in various inboxes, unavailable to the organization as a whole.
If you're that concerned about how scattered your email is, you should look into Google Search with Mozilla hooks. With one search you can find files, chat (Trillian), web history, and email. Now you really don't have to care where you file your email away. Document versioning is a whole different story and you should be using a centralized Word file depot (versioning is a feature of Word!), or a CVS repository of an open format - whatever fits. Why advocate a complete tear-down and rebuild of the whole world-wide email when there are tools that will fit you nicely? Besides, in any organization there is a lot of email that is not for everyone's eyes, so you'd better have security in mind. A personal solution fits that person. It is entirely possible that a more organized person has their email organized where they can find it. Now, if you are talking about announcements in public feeds and permission-secured feeds for within groups and departments, then there are certainly places where that applies.
My only knock on the tools you recommend are that they are Java based.
I love the Google Mail interface for reading mail, but as a feed reader it just won't cut it. I would rather use something like FeedOnFeeds in frame mode for best text density. I even use a republish patch to reuse the feed reader to publish select links. Since everyone from CNN to Sourceforge uses RSS feeds to distribute articles, I never ever have to go randomly browsing for content. Either it's in the reader or it isn't published yet.
You do know that you can run it without the browser plugin, right? And if you don't like the Adobe Reader you can always get Ghostview for Windows, which has a comparatively light footprint and can read PDFs just fine.
Can you point me to where in the NYT advertisement this was mentioned? Because front and center on the second page it said
"I was tired of my browser crashing every day so I tried Firefox."
By this philosophy a lot of us should be going back to IE. I call bullshit on "vibrant and alert" - that's just contentless filler. We've seen plenty of patches and no centralized way to manage the browsers in a non-home environment.
We've done it at ours and things have only improved. I call them lazy, because there is plenty you can do with AD Policies to turn portions of the new XP2 features on and off across the domain or just parts of it.
And I think we've covered on Slashdot before how all of the above are toxic or destructive to the environment in one way or another. Is it really that big a change to trade one poison for another? Aren't we just kidding ourselves? Hard to believe Mercury used to be a medicine, but there we were believing we had an alternative.
Sad that the Pentagon, a miltary agency, has taken its hands out of a non-military project (i know, I know, it was once a military project in the even of a nuke attack)? Geez, guess its a bad thing for tax dollars to go where people say they are supposed to go to. Short-term military benefits sounds like the right business for the Pentagon to be in.
Lets leave the CS R&D to universities and comporations rather than bits of my paycheck.
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I wonder if this is because most companies overload their IT departments with project? They believe that IT should be churning out results as quickly as their little brown suits can crank out the ideas.
I know! Lets open all the ports on the firewall so that our customers can easily access the SQL server! While we're at it, let's increase productivity by shifting each employee's mouse to the next employee on their immediate left!
Maybe they should have found the statistic for what percentage of IT people were actually consulted on the estimates it would take to complete a certain task in a project. Or how many IT departments were asked about whether a certain piece of software would integrate with the company's other systems before the company went out and bought this gigantic package.
Or maybe they should have a percentage of how many companies actually have people with real project management experience planning projects, instead of treating the projects like some glorified after-school club activity, then getting pissed at IT people who "apparently aren't taking the business seriously."
Acrobat 7 seems to need a few more folders and files than that, as it launched the installer after I started it once I had renamed the folder and copied the files. Still, it was pretty darn fast.
Going through Quicksilver right now after having read Neuromancer (my first Gibson) and Zodiac to cool off from Beevor's Stalingrad. I've loved all of Stephenson's other books (Cryptonomicon was my first) and wished he would reprise each of those worlds (partly because of how he has trouble winding up the tales). Even here in a historic setting, he is writing what feels like great sci-fi. There are plenty of references to previous books, like Spectacle Island in Boston and the Waterhouse-Shaftoe characters, and as always he's pretty informative. I'm only 1/3 of the way through, but I half expect a pizza delivery reference in there somewhere. Confusion and System aren't out on paperback yet (this summer for Confusion?), but when I finish this one in a couple of weeks I'm going to probably hit Gibson again with Pattern Recognition.
This wouldn't be necessary if design houses would switch to redundant designs such as those being promoted by Virage Logic. These designs allow faulty chips with redundant circuits to disable areas that do not pass inspection and in turn enable areas that will provide the same functionality. With the increasing amount of a chips' area being devoted more and more to memory, this becomes more important AND more likely since memory is just the same cell iterated many times over a certain area. Of course, there will be some chips that just can't be saved, but statistics are showing that for a minor increase in area, you can improve yield to about 80%. All without accepting subpar performance chips.
I would be content for him to remake the teddy-bear fest that was Return of the Jedi. Imagine that after the Wookies are enslaved in Episode 3, what a triumph it would be for them, not the Ewoks, to be a big part of the Empire's downfall. Not to mention the dialog just plain SUCKS!!! Please Uncle George, retell that story.
So you really need fingerprint, iris scan, and voice recognition as a single biometric. There's problems with all of them, of course. People lose fingers, poke out eyes, and get colds, so maybe it should be best two out of three. Something has to be done to improve the poor authentication we have now, so let's not have little things like this keep us from trying to make them better.
But let's just not go as far as requiring a colon scan everytime you need to go through a door...
EMPLOYEE: Dude, the whole reason I'm leaving the room is I need to go to the bathroom.
GUARD: Sorry sir, rules are rules.
EMPLOYEE: Aw $#!+!!!!!!
Companies that make these little devices: Safeword and SecurID. Any of these can be spoken to someone over a phone so that the improper person gets the access. A third biometric needs to be added to ensure that the proper person gets the access. Or at least someone who went through the trouble to sever their limb/eye/finger.
I look forward to the days when humanity will be nothing more than a spineless deformed lump on a couch that hits a button for every need. Porn will be pumoed straight into our minds to let us believe that we are actually having sex with a real person. Procreation will be nothing more than collecting some oozes and incubating them to create another blob. Sustenance will be completely intravenous. Lights will come on and off as needed. And there won't be a single entertainment show even closely resembling reality television. What a price to pay for that small progress.
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Seriously, a remake of Return of the Jedi with bloodthirsty vengeful Wookies would do the series much more good. I really want to see Wookies tear the arms off of stormtroopers after their enslavement.
They're included on the DVD set! Still not in the right order, though.
Check the prices on Ebay. Collectors may be snapping them up, but prices aren't that high. Basically they are talking about $20 in your pocket for that old player. It's only going to make a scratch in the price of a new iPod, so you'd better hawk a lot more stuff if you want a shiny new player.
Not everyone has cash for your super expensive iPods. Everyone else gets to use the "old stuff". Not everyone needs 40GB of storage. Those of us with only a few favorites at one time can use an older player to store a couple dozen songs.
Anyone wanna buy my old PMP300? =)
email leads to lots of problems in office communications...too much valuable knowledge ends up scattered in various inboxes, unavailable to the organization as a whole.
If you're that concerned about how scattered your email is, you should look into Google Search with Mozilla hooks. With one search you can find files, chat (Trillian), web history, and email. Now you really don't have to care where you file your email away. Document versioning is a whole different story and you should be using a centralized Word file depot (versioning is a feature of Word!), or a CVS repository of an open format - whatever fits. Why advocate a complete tear-down and rebuild of the whole world-wide email when there are tools that will fit you nicely? Besides, in any organization there is a lot of email that is not for everyone's eyes, so you'd better have security in mind. A personal solution fits that person. It is entirely possible that a more organized person has their email organized where they can find it. Now, if you are talking about announcements in public feeds and permission-secured feeds for within groups and departments, then there are certainly places where that applies.
My only knock on the tools you recommend are that they are Java based.
I love the Google Mail interface for reading mail, but as a feed reader it just won't cut it. I would rather use something like FeedOnFeeds in frame mode for best text density. I even use a republish patch to reuse the feed reader to publish select links. Since everyone from CNN to Sourceforge uses RSS feeds to distribute articles, I never ever have to go randomly browsing for content. Either it's in the reader or it isn't published yet.
You do know that you can run it without the browser plugin, right? And if you don't like the Adobe Reader you can always get Ghostview for Windows, which has a comparatively light footprint and can read PDFs just fine.
Can you point me to where in the NYT advertisement this was mentioned? Because front and center on the second page it said
"I was tired of my browser crashing every day so I tried Firefox."
By this philosophy a lot of us should be going back to IE. I call bullshit on "vibrant and alert" - that's just contentless filler. We've seen plenty of patches and no centralized way to manage the browsers in a non-home environment.
We've done it at ours and things have only improved. I call them lazy, because there is plenty you can do with AD Policies to turn portions of the new XP2 features on and off across the domain or just parts of it.
And I think we've covered on Slashdot before how all of the above are toxic or destructive to the environment in one way or another. Is it really that big a change to trade one poison for another? Aren't we just kidding ourselves? Hard to believe Mercury used to be a medicine, but there we were believing we had an alternative.
Wow. "Idea diarrhea" just became my new catch phrase. I plan on using your asterisked quote ASAP.
Sad that the Pentagon, a miltary agency, has taken its hands out of a non-military project (i know, I know, it was once a military project in the even of a nuke attack)? Geez, guess its a bad thing for tax dollars to go where people say they are supposed to go to. Short-term military benefits sounds like the right business for the Pentagon to be in.
Lets leave the CS R&D to universities and comporations rather than bits of my paycheck.
I'm humor impaired you insensitive clod!
Maybe they should have found the statistic for what percentage of IT people were actually consulted on the estimates it would take to complete a certain task in a project. Or how many IT departments were asked about whether a certain piece of software would integrate with the company's other systems before the company went out and bought this gigantic package.
Or maybe they should have a percentage of how many companies actually have people with real project management experience planning projects, instead of treating the projects like some glorified after-school club activity, then getting pissed at IT people who "apparently aren't taking the business seriously."
Defintely depends on who you ask.
Acrobat 7 seems to need a few more folders and files than that, as it launched the installer after I started it once I had renamed the folder and copied the files. Still, it was pretty darn fast.
Going through Quicksilver right now after having read Neuromancer (my first Gibson) and Zodiac to cool off from Beevor's Stalingrad. I've loved all of Stephenson's other books (Cryptonomicon was my first) and wished he would reprise each of those worlds (partly because of how he has trouble winding up the tales). Even here in a historic setting, he is writing what feels like great sci-fi. There are plenty of references to previous books, like Spectacle Island in Boston and the Waterhouse-Shaftoe characters, and as always he's pretty informative. I'm only 1/3 of the way through, but I half expect a pizza delivery reference in there somewhere. Confusion and System aren't out on paperback yet (this summer for Confusion?), but when I finish this one in a couple of weeks I'm going to probably hit Gibson again with Pattern Recognition.
You really need to take longer showers, dude. Pyeeew.
For some, an adverse side-effect will be sterility. For others, the benefit will be sterility. To top it off, you can make calls with this!!
Err...you know that he can *hire* people to do it for him. It doesn't actually have to be him directly doing it, but he can direct someone to do it.
This wouldn't be necessary if design houses would switch to redundant designs such as those being promoted by Virage Logic. These designs allow faulty chips with redundant circuits to disable areas that do not pass inspection and in turn enable areas that will provide the same functionality. With the increasing amount of a chips' area being devoted more and more to memory, this becomes more important AND more likely since memory is just the same cell iterated many times over a certain area. Of course, there will be some chips that just can't be saved, but statistics are showing that for a minor increase in area, you can improve yield to about 80%. All without accepting subpar performance chips.
I would be content for him to remake the teddy-bear fest that was Return of the Jedi. Imagine that after the Wookies are enslaved in Episode 3, what a triumph it would be for them, not the Ewoks, to be a big part of the Empire's downfall. Not to mention the dialog just plain SUCKS!!! Please Uncle George, retell that story.
But let's just not go as far as requiring a colon scan everytime you need to go through a door...
Companies that make these little devices: Safeword and SecurID. Any of these can be spoken to someone over a phone so that the improper person gets the access. A third biometric needs to be added to ensure that the proper person gets the access. Or at least someone who went through the trouble to sever their limb/eye/finger.
I look forward to the days when humanity will be nothing more than a spineless deformed lump on a couch that hits a button for every need. Porn will be pumoed straight into our minds to let us believe that we are actually having sex with a real person. Procreation will be nothing more than collecting some oozes and incubating them to create another blob. Sustenance will be completely intravenous. Lights will come on and off as needed. And there won't be a single entertainment show even closely resembling reality television. What a price to pay for that small progress.
What do you call this?
Crap on a stick.