A few good programmers could likely write a handful of scripts that create fake Facebook accounts, and effectively spoil their data. If even a small percentage of the total users' data are false, can you trust any of the data?
And what the hell are people doing putting seriously private data on a public server anyway? Have the past TWO DECADES of internet privacy violation news stories not been an educator for the general populous? If you put something on someone else's server, it's their data. You screwed up. Go home.
I know I'm way off topic, but I have to ask. What is Real good for anyway? What do they do, for a fee, that isn't done by a variety of other sources for free? And I know their media player software is free, but in their case the fee is all the garbage that comes with it. Or you pay a monetary fee and likely still get a bunch of garbage you don't want.
So to make some on topic comment I will say that I fully support this form of capitalism. Real could pay them for the information - it's a better deal than hiring a consulting company that may or may not discover a problem. At least these people have already done work with positive results.
The very large glass face of the iPhone lends itself to a more damaged future than any BlackBerry model I've seen. My wife actually dropped her iPhone "butter side down", shattering the display. I don't think the plastic screen of my BlackBerry Pearl would do that.
But I still want an iPhone. I just want one with GPS, 3G, and modem capabilities.
Offshore or not in the United States? Where the two terms do overlap, they are not the same thing. If they were truly offshore there would be no [need] for legal recourse. Just hire someone to put a missile into their server farm. It'd be cheaper than lawyers anyway.
For that matter, what's stopping people from hiring someone to physically assault a land based facility in a country that does not comply with internet regulations?
I'm all about saving lives, even if they're outside of my Monkeysphere. And others have mentioned issues with a mosquito replacement, or the problems with the species that eat the mosquitoes.
But what about the 5 million people per year that suddenly aren't dieing of mosquito transmitted diseases? That's a lot of new people! The people that are making all these new people are going to have to dramatically change their life style. It's no longer "make more babies and hope they life". They'll have to make fewer babies and keep them fed. We went through that in the United States a couple hundred years ago as our medications got profoundly better, but it took time for people to catch on.
The populations in the areas most effected by this big of a change are going to experience HUGE population growth, doubling in years instead of decades or more. Can their cultures support that kind of growth?
My boss and I walk around and turn the lights out before we leave. I figure that helps, some.
At first glance I had the thought that we only use our electronics for 1/3 of the day. 8 out of 24 hours. But that's not the case. People show up for work as early as 7 and stay as late as 7, so there is someone here for half the day. 12 out of 24 hours. I don't know what the relevance is but I thought I'd share that.
Anyway, if computers were scheduled to auto shutdown (not just "sleep"), at 8PM and auto boot at 6AM I think there would be some significant power savings. Especially in our older PowerMac G5 rigs, of which we have several.
But the biggest savings in my building would probably be better insulation. Our heater and cooling systems run constantly - sometimes together! - because our windows are not terribly well sealed. In some offices you can actually feel the cold air moving through the room. This in turn causes the employees to run their own heaters and fans to adjust their office, which throws the central system into confusion and makes it run that much more.
And honestly, the biggest issue of all those things is that, and I'm going to get torn a new one for this, women do not dress appropriately. They dress "cute" instead of dressing for the environment. If you come to your office every day and you're cold every day, wear something warmer. A short skirt and blouse in January with a space heater blowing up your legs is not acceptable.
Whenever I see discussion about teleportation discussed, I think about Ilium and how in reality when they were teleporting, they were being killed and brought back to life at the other end, they were never the same person, made of the same atoms, just an exact copy. Begs the question, "What IS life?" doesn't it?
From the summary: "E-mail growth accounts for much of that figure."
We're archiving spam? No, we have associates using their email as a file storage device - sending documents to eachother through email rather than just sending an email that says "Your 38MB file is on the file server in/X/here/where/there/document.type".
First of all its competitors are not MS Office and OpenOffice. Second, it's still beta! (just like nearly everything else Google is working on)
That said, it works. I've used it, though I don't use it. I'm done buying MS products, and I think Google Docs helps make that easier. There are a lot of people in the world who just need slightly better than a text editor and a way to publish it on the interweb. Google Docs provides that and it's free which is awesome, and simple which is also awesome.
See it for what it is, not what you expect it to be.
It's a $200 computer. Dell doesn't even sell anything that cheap, and their cheap stuff is pretty crappy. But, for $200 any computer at all is pretty good. The iPhone costs twice that much and it doesn't even come with a mouse!
i look to the right and the game view looks to the right?
Only problem now is that i can't see the TV You need a bigger TV...
And besides, it's not what direction you're looking, it's what direction you're looking from. Move your whole body to the right while continuing to look at the TV and the display on the TV changes perspective. Not to mention depth of field, and distance from the TV. Did you even watch the video?
Surely he's sent in his resume. That's some really cool concepting, and not that Nintendo doesn't have their own cool concepts, but this is just incredible. The best part is, it's really simple and appears to be mass producible for cheap - two things Nintendo does well already.
and has been horseshoed for the past 20 years into a full architecture chip when the initial design was never meant to become like this Welcome to business driving technology, rather than technology driving business.
Apple and Microsoft display the same pattern - their products resembles beta for the first few months, and only become mature after a few years. Happened with the iPod, and all successful versions of Windows.
I never upgrade until the widespread opinion is the product is mature... Administrating 30+ Windows computers and 30+ Mac computers, I fully agree with you. I wait for the second service pack from Microsoft before moving to their "latest and greatest", and a 10.x.4 system update from Apple. That's my own set in stone requirements. I should probably find some reasonable place to wait for on Adobe upgrades as well.
In addition to that, I often try to skip entire generations of software. They don't tend to add enough features per generation anyway, so why pay for it? Just skip it and go on to the next one. We didn't do Adobe's CS1 at all, and we're waiting for CS4 (or whatever they call it) before we make another grandiose upgrade.
Until there is a killer app that only runs on Vista, I can't see why most people whould make the change. I think people are saying the same thing about the PS3. Kind of odd that MS would put so much into making the XBox 360 such a market killer, but let their brand new OS fall to the same problems that their game console is creating for its competitor(s).
It seems like, lately, software producers and hardware manufacturers aren't making big enough leaps between revisions. There just isn't enough in Vista to take people away from XP. There isn't enough in the PS3 to take me away from my PS2.
Well, the cost of the Beetle is something like $20K, the camera another $45K. Outside my office right now there are plenty of $65K+ autos not being touched. And getting to the center of the roof of a car is no simple task. I think it'd probably be ok (:
"what's the big deal, you have the iPod touch", to which he responded, "but that is the iPhone and we don't have that yet!" EXACTLY! It's not about how cool something is or isn't, or who made it. They can't have it so it's the only thing they want. "Grass is always greener..."
I've hat a lot of European friends say the same thing about Americans (USA citizens). I think it's true for everyone in the internet generation from everywhere around the world.
Absolutely. I've never understood the WASD setup - it simply doesn't make since. I've been converting my friends to ESDF for several years and it's like a light bulb going off in their head every time. Good to know there's someone else on the crusade. Maybe someday the game designers will include it as a default option.
Somehow I have a hard time believing 2,000,000 laptops were stolen in a single year. That's nearly 5,500 per DAY. I don't think Dell even move than many laptops in a day. And I don't know a single person, personally, who had their laptop stolen. Ever. Where do these numbers come from? Are people just reporting stolen laptops for insurance claims? And now they have two laptops?
Or give an option for a safe recovery mode of a robot in case of engine failure. Parachutes and balloons, similar to what the Martian lander had, would be pretty good for aiding in a safe recovery.
I think we are de-valuing the meaning of the word 'super':) I believe it was originally Apple who brought on the devaluing of the word "super" with their "The PowerMac G4 is more powerful than a Super Computer" campaign. Sure it is - your 1999 desktop computer is more powerful than... a super computer from 1983. Congratulations! You're only 16 years late.
At one point they came with three coupons, but now that I think about it I don't remember them being in the past few computers I've bought for work. I believe they were good for major OS releases. Like going from OS 8 to OS 8.5, and then to 9, and 9.2. Whenever there was a new CD release basically. Could have sworn there were still some in the box when they got to OS X.
I seem to remember in 2004 copying 1600+ trip pictures that were 2MB each from an XP laptop to my XP desktop and it failing to complete and displaying no errors. That's the only time I've ever seen Windows do that though. It used to happen a lot with Mac OS 7.x and 8.x. To the point I would copy one folder at a time and check the contents as I went. OS X fails to recalculate folder sizes in the List view.
Oh, speaking of calculating folder sizes in list view, does Vista do this? There is a handy add-on for XP called Folder Size but it doesn't work with Vista. The author claims he went through some hassle trying to get it to work with Vista but he doesn't say WHEN he went through the hassle, so I figured maybe Microsoft would have added that feature.
Everyone should use Folder Size if they're using XP. It's really nice. Especially if you use Macs on a regular basis as well.
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A few good programmers could likely write a handful of scripts that create fake Facebook accounts, and effectively spoil their data. If even a small percentage of the total users' data are false, can you trust any of the data?
And what the hell are people doing putting seriously private data on a public server anyway? Have the past TWO DECADES of internet privacy violation news stories not been an educator for the general populous? If you put something on someone else's server, it's their data. You screwed up. Go home.
I know I'm way off topic, but I have to ask. What is Real good for anyway? What do they do, for a fee, that isn't done by a variety of other sources for free? And I know their media player software is free, but in their case the fee is all the garbage that comes with it. Or you pay a monetary fee and likely still get a bunch of garbage you don't want.
So to make some on topic comment I will say that I fully support this form of capitalism. Real could pay them for the information - it's a better deal than hiring a consulting company that may or may not discover a problem. At least these people have already done work with positive results.
The very large glass face of the iPhone lends itself to a more damaged future than any BlackBerry model I've seen. My wife actually dropped her iPhone "butter side down", shattering the display. I don't think the plastic screen of my BlackBerry Pearl would do that.
But I still want an iPhone. I just want one with GPS, 3G, and modem capabilities.
Offshore or not in the United States? Where the two terms do overlap, they are not the same thing. If they were truly offshore there would be no [need] for legal recourse. Just hire someone to put a missile into their server farm. It'd be cheaper than lawyers anyway.
For that matter, what's stopping people from hiring someone to physically assault a land based facility in a country that does not comply with internet regulations?
I'm all about saving lives, even if they're outside of my Monkeysphere. And others have mentioned issues with a mosquito replacement, or the problems with the species that eat the mosquitoes.
But what about the 5 million people per year that suddenly aren't dieing of mosquito transmitted diseases? That's a lot of new people! The people that are making all these new people are going to have to dramatically change their life style. It's no longer "make more babies and hope they life". They'll have to make fewer babies and keep them fed. We went through that in the United States a couple hundred years ago as our medications got profoundly better, but it took time for people to catch on.
The populations in the areas most effected by this big of a change are going to experience HUGE population growth, doubling in years instead of decades or more. Can their cultures support that kind of growth?
My boss and I walk around and turn the lights out before we leave. I figure that helps, some.
At first glance I had the thought that we only use our electronics for 1/3 of the day. 8 out of 24 hours. But that's not the case. People show up for work as early as 7 and stay as late as 7, so there is someone here for half the day. 12 out of 24 hours. I don't know what the relevance is but I thought I'd share that.
Anyway, if computers were scheduled to auto shutdown (not just "sleep"), at 8PM and auto boot at 6AM I think there would be some significant power savings. Especially in our older PowerMac G5 rigs, of which we have several.
But the biggest savings in my building would probably be better insulation. Our heater and cooling systems run constantly - sometimes together! - because our windows are not terribly well sealed. In some offices you can actually feel the cold air moving through the room. This in turn causes the employees to run their own heaters and fans to adjust their office, which throws the central system into confusion and makes it run that much more.
And honestly, the biggest issue of all those things is that, and I'm going to get torn a new one for this, women do not dress appropriately. They dress "cute" instead of dressing for the environment. If you come to your office every day and you're cold every day, wear something warmer. A short skirt and blouse in January with a space heater blowing up your legs is not acceptable.
"E-mail growth accounts for much of that figure."
We're archiving spam? No, we have associates using their email as a file storage device - sending documents to eachother through email rather than just sending an email that says "Your 38MB file is on the file server in
First of all its competitors are not MS Office and OpenOffice. Second, it's still beta! (just like nearly everything else Google is working on)
That said, it works. I've used it, though I don't use it. I'm done buying MS products, and I think Google Docs helps make that easier. There are a lot of people in the world who just need slightly better than a text editor and a way to publish it on the interweb. Google Docs provides that and it's free which is awesome, and simple which is also awesome.
See it for what it is, not what you expect it to be.
It's a $200 computer. Dell doesn't even sell anything that cheap, and their cheap stuff is pretty crappy. But, for $200 any computer at all is pretty good. The iPhone costs twice that much and it doesn't even come with a mouse!
Only problem now is that i can't see the TV You need a bigger TV
And besides, it's not what direction you're looking, it's what direction you're looking from. Move your whole body to the right while continuing to look at the TV and the display on the TV changes perspective. Not to mention depth of field, and distance from the TV. Did you even watch the video?
Why am I even responding to an AC comment?
Surely he's sent in his resume. That's some really cool concepting, and not that Nintendo doesn't have their own cool concepts, but this is just incredible. The best part is, it's really simple and appears to be mass producible for cheap - two things Nintendo does well already.
I never upgrade until the widespread opinion is the product is mature... Administrating 30+ Windows computers and 30+ Mac computers, I fully agree with you. I wait for the second service pack from Microsoft before moving to their "latest and greatest", and a 10.x.4 system update from Apple. That's my own set in stone requirements. I should probably find some reasonable place to wait for on Adobe upgrades as well.
In addition to that, I often try to skip entire generations of software. They don't tend to add enough features per generation anyway, so why pay for it? Just skip it and go on to the next one. We didn't do Adobe's CS1 at all, and we're waiting for CS4 (or whatever they call it) before we make another grandiose upgrade.
So ... it's a really big spinnaker?
Cool. I like it.
It seems like, lately, software producers and hardware manufacturers aren't making big enough leaps between revisions. There just isn't enough in Vista to take people away from XP. There isn't enough in the PS3 to take me away from my PS2.
Well, the cost of the Beetle is something like $20K, the camera another $45K. Outside my office right now there are plenty of $65K+ autos not being touched. And getting to the center of the roof of a car is no simple task. I think it'd probably be ok (:
I've hat a lot of European friends say the same thing about Americans (USA citizens). I think it's true for everyone in the internet generation from everywhere around the world.
Absolutely. I've never understood the WASD setup - it simply doesn't make since. I've been converting my friends to ESDF for several years and it's like a light bulb going off in their head every time. Good to know there's someone else on the crusade. Maybe someday the game designers will include it as a default option.
Here's to progress - CHEERS!
Somehow I have a hard time believing 2,000,000 laptops were stolen in a single year. That's nearly 5,500 per DAY. I don't think Dell even move than many laptops in a day. And I don't know a single person, personally, who had their laptop stolen. Ever. Where do these numbers come from? Are people just reporting stolen laptops for insurance claims? And now they have two laptops?
NASA used both to get machinery on Mars, and they had to launch the added weight out of Earth's gravity. Surely it can't weigh too much.
At one point they came with three coupons, but now that I think about it I don't remember them being in the past few computers I've bought for work. I believe they were good for major OS releases. Like going from OS 8 to OS 8.5, and then to 9, and 9.2. Whenever there was a new CD release basically. Could have sworn there were still some in the box when they got to OS X.
I seem to remember in 2004 copying 1600+ trip pictures that were 2MB each from an XP laptop to my XP desktop and it failing to complete and displaying no errors. That's the only time I've ever seen Windows do that though. It used to happen a lot with Mac OS 7.x and 8.x. To the point I would copy one folder at a time and check the contents as I went. OS X fails to recalculate folder sizes in the List view.
Oh, speaking of calculating folder sizes in list view, does Vista do this? There is a handy add-on for XP called Folder Size but it doesn't work with Vista. The author claims he went through some hassle trying to get it to work with Vista but he doesn't say WHEN he went through the hassle, so I figured maybe Microsoft would have added that feature.
Everyone should use Folder Size if they're using XP. It's really nice. Especially if you use Macs on a regular basis as well.