I don't get why they need to use touch screens in the first place. Having to calibrate them in the middle of a voting session seems unproductive,and are they even allowed to do that which would leave everyone in the same boat. I've used touch screens(I setup smartboards in some of my clients) and I could see someone accidently clicking the wrong person if the screen wasn't calibrated.
I've heard of these new fangled things called buttons... they seem to work wonders, no calibration, AND THERE STILL TOUCH SENSITIVE. Hell you could have it as simple as a figging atm machine where you have the buttons on the right hand side. Most people are used to ATM machines and having to hit a button.
Touch screens are nice but I think they leave a little room for error and are probably more expensive then an lcd screen with 6 buttons. I in the states you sometimes will be voting for more than one position, well you could have different pages for each position your voting for and have 6-10 buttons one for each canditate with a line marking what button you have to press.
Seems like common sense to me, but people are impressed by flashy touchy thingies.
Let me draw you a picture, it's the 1930's people are unemployed looking for work heading out Califory way. They camp out in tents and play the guitar singing the blues about how they don't have work. People get together for a game of cards because cards are cheap split 5 ways. Someones got some moonshine that they found in a bush by a farmers field. It's a good time.
Compare that to now, programmers are getting together on a forum talking about better times programming to keep their minds off of being poor and unemployed. Drinking homemade mountain due writing about their unemployment in their commented code.
I mean it's not like people shut down and pick up axes and head for the bush to find food and totally stop doing anything they enjoy. Of course if they have to have 3 jobs they might not be able to contribute to OSS but there are plenty of people who work on OSS because it's how they unwind. If there's anything to be shown about hard times it's how people start to try and take their mind off of their situation. Some people will watch TV, some will get together with friends, or find some cheap way to pass the time. Some people(programming people... my people) will probably sit down and write code. I find it to be a creative outlet sometimes and rewarding. Thats what some people need a project to keep busy when they arn't out working or looking for work. The other side is that the whole world isn't going through a recession and neither are all the programmers in the US looking for food in dumpsters. OSS is going to be around as long as there are people that can program. Someone else earlier said that this article was flame bait and it is.
The world isn't going to stop turning tomorrow people aren't going to all of the sudden say hey I could make money doing this. They probably knew that they could before. Nothing has changed except a few people who would be programming in their spare time might now be looking for work in that time or working a second job(or seeking overtime). Companies will hire people to work on OSS to fit their needs as it will be cheaper for them then buying licenses every year, companies like IBM and Sun aren't going to drop their development. Red Hat pays people to do development, so even if there was a reason to believe that OSS will end when people go to look for work that pays instead of hobby OSS, there are companies that will pay you to do just that.
This article is an extreme as was the red hat article. Neither one is exactly right but I could see a shift in OSS in the future that is a result of the current global economy. I don't know what that is, but so far all I've seen is people shouting out one extreme or another when it's probably somewhere in the middle with a shift in a new direction.
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I disagree, I don't know the last time a a computer I made or bought didn't come with video card that at least an svideo out on the back. My current computer came with an HDMI adaptor that did audio as well(ATI's Cards I don't think NVIDIA's dvi to hdmi adaptor will do sound) and I have my computer hooked up to my 42inch TV. I basically use it as a monitor, I sit in a lazy boy with a wireless keyboard and mouse, and play video games. I have people over and they sit in the other lazy boy and can play too. I have 2 usb controllers(not any more expensive than buying a PS2 controller) no need for a hub or an adaptor(it's dual shock controller too check out logitechs site sometime). I also have a big ass joystick for flight sims and mech warrior(love that on the big tv). I'm outputting at 1080p so it has an amazing resolution. My friend keep telling me to buy a PS3 or 360 to play games. I do like the idea of xbox live but they tell me I should get a PS3 for the blue-ray well have you looked at the price of a blue-ray drive for a computer lately the blueray burners can be cheaper than your PS3. I do have a wii that I play on occasion cause I like the controller and Resident Evil 4 is a blast, but the experience is probably as good as for the PS3 or xbox360 minues a few games that I miss(though each console has it's exclusives that you miss unless you buy all 3 consoles). If I have 4 people over I typically rock out the wii anyways(it's more of a crowd pleaser anyways). Most of my friends I play games with have a computer and the ones that really like to game live in other cities(I moved about 5 hours away from my gamming friends), though it is fun when they come up and bring the 360 and we rock out in rockband or COD4.
I won't say that the 360 or PS3 are a bad choice, but most of the time your going to be hooking them up to a TV that has HDMI capabilty and if your computer doesn't have an DVI port on the back it probably won't support the game your going to want to play anyways.
The biggest problem with PC games is FPS with multiplayer, you just don't get split screen for a PC so you can have more then one guy on the same game. Controllers are only useful(usually) if your doing emulation. You can't emulate the newest games on a PC that just won't work. Outside of a lan party PC's are usually only good for single player action or online play(by your self). If I ever wanted to get my other friends who aren't gamers playing I would need a PS3 or a 360. Wii is a crowd pleaser but it wears off after awhile and you want to play something like COD4 or some other FPS that doesn't happen on the Wii easily and I already stated the problem with the computer.
But for the lone gamer PC can be a logical choice and you shouldn't have to be locked into a console that's basically a PC with a special OS in it.
are you implying that we could observe something with quantum mechanics? Cause that would be cool, I wish I had a better understanding of quantum physics so that I could understand how quantum entanglement works and how each one comes joined with the other, also how you can observe something that's always in a flux. I always found it very VERY interesting maybe I'll audit a university class someday just for fun.
cool I didn't know that John Hodgman worked for free. I'll have to get him for my next birthday party.
He might not be as famouse as some of the people in the other add but they are all paid. I thought that the MAC ads were always trolling making them seem pompous. I hated them. I don't like the Microsoft comericals but at least they don't go around saying that MACs are stupid... just racist...
actually Vista was a good idea. The XP operating system needed to be updated to keep up with the friendly user interface that OSX uses. The problem came after Vista was conceptualized when they kind of missed the point. You see they needed better security and better user interface. It's not an easy thing to accomplish putting the two together. If you looked at OSX you would see that it has alot of security flaws that just arn't taken advantage of. I'm not starting an Apple flame war here, I'm just saying Microsoft was trying to do alot of things and fucked it up. When I got the OS for evaluation the security took away from the user experiance and the things that they added to it to help with the interface seemed to slow the computer down painfully. I bought a laptop that came with Vista and it had horrible battery life and slowed the computer down alot. I ended up killing aero and a few other things and it wasn't as bad but then it was basically XP so I installed it for program compatibilty. I wouldn't say I hate vista it came with some pretty cool features. Non of witch would make me need to switch.
Windows 7 will hopefully be what Vista was suppose to be. But to say that Vista wasn't a good idea is wrong. That good idea just got shit on.
I don't think I've done allot of gaming on a laptop let alone a starbucks. I do get what your saying but I think that technology has advanced enough that it might work with a bluetooth adapter and have a very small battery like my wireless headphones do. I can compare my wireless headphones that I got 2 years ago with the ones I got 5 years ago and theres a huge difference. Though I wouldn't care if there was a wire on them, 3D would be sweet.
Anyways technology has come a long way since they first came out and I have no doubt that newer versions will be less cords and lighter weight.
Is this really that extreme? I mean I wouldn't want random people trying to be P.I.'s out there they should be kept track of and made accountable. Their actions should be able to be reviewed and position denied if they are found to be acting outside the law. Having a license to do something means that they are accountable to their actions. A license lets someone know they are.
Now the thing is should you be able to operate or hire someone without a license? I guess you should be able to if you really wanted. I mean if I thought my brother could take my appendix out without much trouble it's my stupidity that let him do that. He was stupid enough to try and practice without training and a ticket saying he was able to. I was stupid enough to think the same damn thing.
A licensed investigator also effects the people he's investigating who would want him to have ethics and a certain amount of accountability like not faking pictures or breaking and entering to plant evidence. It still happens but they could loose their license and their creditability. Honestly I see something like a license to drive or investigate where it effects more than the people that are in the contract(the client and the investigator) needing a license by law.
Maybe I just ramble on with run on sentences too but you can't make me fix em you don't have a license:P
I'm sure he knew what might happen when he decided to protest in China about Tibet. I commend him for that, it might get some attention to people around the world to his cause. I think he either had to have had some seriouse balls or have been a little nieve to think of what would happen if he was detained by athorities. I don't think hes a dumb man he knew what he was doing and he knew what would probably happen.
Hopefully they just ship him home after a couple days or weeks and this doesn't get too ugly for him.
On another note "I know hippies. I've hated them all my life. I've kept this town free of hippies on my own since I was five and a half. But I can't contain them on my own anymore. We have to do something, fast!" hehe China is Cartman
I agree but how has the same thing not backfired on apple? Their one ad was marketing that Macs are used for fun, they had what's his name from the daily show, showing XP was only used for business stuff. Well I've never used a mac for anything but photo editing and video editing. The number of games on it are not that great. I can't play CS: source or COD4 without booting into an XP partition. I don't get it. I guess they may be trying to say that the experience is more fun but I don't see that when they are making fun of XP for using a calculator. So what XP is good for business but not regular consumer, and it has games more than OSX any ways, this wasn't a very good ad.
They should stick to their stability like having the windows character go crazy and the MAC guy doing like a Zen meditation thing. "Pick something a little more stable" then jump back to the windows character and have him say "I black out for a minute there just need to get ahold of myself, and have him go into a seizure. Classic.
Anyways Microsoft maybe couldn't pull this off but I could see Nokia doing a simular ad campain.
The GPL does some things I don't think you are aware of. It makes people who use the GPL code release their changes. This keeps companies like Microsoft from taking a project changing it with new features editing the current code and releasing it without releasing the source code.
I would say that the licensing that BSD uses is closer to having no copyright. This is why wine switched licensing. GPL keeps people from profiting from steeling code and selling it with changes without opensourcing it. Without GPL or any copyright their may not be opensource(I think their would but their could not be as well).
The problem isn't being able to make a fusion reaction the myth is making a cold fusion reaction. They are different. I recall a story about some kid that made one of these for a science fair in the states I think. They called in a group of people to take radiation readings and make sure it was safe once they knew what it was. But yeah I wonder why they can't make these things self sustaining and produce more energy than is put in like the sun.
Thats great because Ni-MH don't suffer from the memory effect like some rechargeable batteries do(at least not to a large extent). Ni-MH batteries are good because they work at a higher voltage longer than a alkaline battery but have a sudden drop off. This makes it hard to determine when the batteries are about to die. This makes them good for a hybrid(some already use Ni-MH like the prius) car but how does that work for a EV car?
The one question I have about batteries in a car is if the weight ends up reducing some of the millage able to be produced by them. Also the waste that is produced by these batteries as even though they are rechargeable they do have an end of life. How much are they to replace?
The solution that I heard of that I think sounds kick ass is the compressed air. You use compressed air to push the cylinders in the car, it's easy to use a compressor hooked up to either a solar panel or plugged in at home. The air is fairly light, and recharging a tank on the road would be as single as pulling up to an air compressor and paying for some air(allot faster than waiting for the car to charge). It's easy to see what the psi is in a tank if it needs filled soon. It's basically converting electricity into a lightweight easy to access medium. Air stations could have a solar panel plant with a windmill to create electricity for the air compressors. This idea gets me excited in a non sexual way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_car http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/22/1543232&from=rss
I'm 100% onboard with that unless someone else sees issues with it.
Do you have any statistics on how long a typical computer is suppose to last for compared to apples? My grandmother was still using my 486 until Christmas when we gave her a new laptop. That was only so she could go on the internet and check email on a decent OS. The thing still runs like a son of a bitch. I have only ever thrown out one computer because of the motherboard caps blowing, I've had about 6 computers. My parents are still using the same 1ghz duron I built for them about 4-6 years ago.
The ipod should have a longer life expectancy, my zen vision has lasted me about 3 years and is still on the original battery. My wifes cousins kids jumped up and down on that thing one time when I had it in my jacket pocket on the bed at her grandma's it didn't get dinted or scratched(not to mention the number of times I dropped it) still works awesome, and the battery is now just starting to not work great but I can buy a replacement.
I hear people saying apples products work longer than anything else they are built better and all that junk, but really are they really the best? I'm thinking they are just PC's with a very nice OS. Their life expectancy might be better than some cheap ass dell or HP but thats why I buy a Think pad(probably costs a much as an mac). I got a second hand dell laptop that lasted 3 years and that thing went through a beating. I think they are over priced, if you want to spend that money on an OS thats not mainstream go for it, I'll probably run some form of *nix over having to buy some over priced computer without a second mouse button(I know you can use any mouse for a mac but their laptops frustrate me especially if you dual boot).
I'm not bashing Apple I don't think their products aren't worth something to some people I just think that the iPod should last more than 18 months and their computers shouldn't be worshiped.
Thats a good point but would those companies stick around if they can't get the cheap labour this is probably what the Chinease government is looking at. The other factor is that there are so many people looking for work that you can cut wages and people would complain but if you went on strike they would just go hire the other 300 people looking for jobs in the area.
I'm not agreeing with it I'm just saying thats how it is.
I'm confused isn't there already laws against child abuse, harassment and a few other things that she did that we don't need to go around with the current charges that threaten freedom of speech? Wrongful death suite something must fit better than this? Maybe I'm completely wrong here but this seems silly.
Text messaging might be a good way to curb this as I always thought the problem was holding the phone up to your head. if thats the case then the future children have nothing to worry about they would rather not hold the bloody thing up to their head. But then we might have to worry about finger cancer.
well you could have two computer, have the camera point at the second computer while you browse the internet with the camera on you, your PHD friend goes and writes your test on the other side with the camera hooked up(i mean it can stay attached to the existing computer and point at another one.
Your assuming that the people who covered up the aliens were part of the whitehouse government and not part of the military or a different branch that doesn't have turn over. You're also assuming that the Watergate scandle it's self wasn't a conspiracy to remove a president out of the whitehouse, and who would have orcastrated that. Also I think Elvis is involved in some way. I mean no one has seen him in years.
It wouldn't have been brought up as prior art because the patent is talking about an analog controller with built in rumble. The rumble in the n64 controller was modular meaning it could be added by attaching a device. This means that even though they had both sets of technology they didn't put it together until the gamecube was developed which was after the patent was filed.
but the arcade joystick didn't rumble did it? I've never used an analog joystick at an arcade that rumbled. Thats what this patent is all about, the N64 had an analog joystick wich pre-dates these patents but the rumble was not built into the controller but rather an add on. The summery is a little vague on that but it's not just analog sticks it's analog sticks with built in rumble. This is probably why they sued Microsoft and Nintendo and not Sony as Sony released their dual shock with rumble around the time the patent was made up and might be able to say they had developed it before the patent, which would be prior art. Sony was sued by a different company for their rumble(can't remember which).
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Theres a few comics that go into detail about how the joker needs batman and batman needs the joker. How they constantly go after eachother but neither wants, or can do what it takes to end the battle. The Dark Knight Returns goes into this as well as some other ones I can't remember.
Definatly loved the killing joke, this movie reminds me how the joker tried to break comissioner gordon. Telling Batman that Dent was where Rachel was so that he would save him. This joker was a little more intelligent and all the best comic book portails have him that way. With the dialog that the joker had when talking to dent in the hospital I would have to say he was a better joker(or my favorite version of him).
Yeah I'm the same way I quit my job they were kind of hosing me, they never payed millage, phone, or overtime I had a contract that stated I should get all of these things and benefits(which they eventually got for the company and gave me the day before I resigned it was a crap plan). They were a small firm, and I setup half of their systems with another guy. I gave 2 weeks wrote down all the stuff I had done but forgot a few things. They still hire me back for consulting but if they ask for a password I give it to them for free. Thats their stuff and so the password is theirs as well. Typically it's something i forgot to write down(I was involved in allot of systems and not every password I remembered to write down). But my employer for all the crap was very nice(they were just poor almost to the point of folding a couple times) which makes a huge difference as well. I have had bad managers and I will not give them an ounce of help(besides maybe a password) because they were jerks and I could spend my time doing something else.
So good for you for handling it the way you did, very professional.
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I don't get why they need to use touch screens in the first place. Having to calibrate them in the middle of a voting session seems unproductive,and are they even allowed to do that which would leave everyone in the same boat. I've used touch screens(I setup smartboards in some of my clients) and I could see someone accidently clicking the wrong person if the screen wasn't calibrated.
I've heard of these new fangled things called buttons... they seem to work wonders, no calibration, AND THERE STILL TOUCH SENSITIVE.
Hell you could have it as simple as a figging atm machine where you have the buttons on the right hand side. Most people are used to ATM machines and having to hit a button.
Touch screens are nice but I think they leave a little room for error and are probably more expensive then an lcd screen with 6 buttons. I in the states you sometimes will be voting for more than one position, well you could have different pages for each position your voting for and have 6-10 buttons one for each canditate with a line marking what button you have to press.
Seems like common sense to me, but people are impressed by flashy touchy thingies.
Frankly paper never had this problem
Let me draw you a picture, it's the 1930's people are unemployed looking for work heading out Califory way. They camp out in tents and play the guitar singing the blues about how they don't have work. People get together for a game of cards because cards are cheap split 5 ways. Someones got some moonshine that they found in a bush by a farmers field. It's a good time.
Compare that to now, programmers are getting together on a forum talking about better times programming to keep their minds off of being poor and unemployed. Drinking homemade mountain due writing about their unemployment in their commented code.
I mean it's not like people shut down and pick up axes and head for the bush to find food and totally stop doing anything they enjoy. Of course if they have to have 3 jobs they might not be able to contribute to OSS but there are plenty of people who work on OSS because it's how they unwind. If there's anything to be shown about hard times it's how people start to try and take their mind off of their situation. Some people will watch TV, some will get together with friends, or find some cheap way to pass the time. Some people(programming people... my people) will probably sit down and write code. I find it to be a creative outlet sometimes and rewarding. Thats what some people need a project to keep busy when they arn't out working or looking for work. The other side is that the whole world isn't going through a recession and neither are all the programmers in the US looking for food in dumpsters. OSS is going to be around as long as there are people that can program. Someone else earlier said that this article was flame bait and it is.
The world isn't going to stop turning tomorrow people aren't going to all of the sudden say hey I could make money doing this. They probably knew that they could before. Nothing has changed except a few people who would be programming in their spare time might now be looking for work in that time or working a second job(or seeking overtime). Companies will hire people to work on OSS to fit their needs as it will be cheaper for them then buying licenses every year, companies like IBM and Sun aren't going to drop their development. Red Hat pays people to do development, so even if there was a reason to believe that OSS will end when people go to look for work that pays instead of hobby OSS, there are companies that will pay you to do just that.
This article is an extreme as was the red hat article. Neither one is exactly right but I could see a shift in OSS in the future that is a result of the current global economy. I don't know what that is, but so far all I've seen is people shouting out one extreme or another when it's probably somewhere in the middle with a shift in a new direction.
Don't mind my grammar my English teacher was dyslexic
I disagree, I don't know the last time a a computer I made or bought didn't come with video card that at least an svideo out on the back. My current computer came with an HDMI adaptor that did audio as well(ATI's Cards I don't think NVIDIA's dvi to hdmi adaptor will do sound) and I have my computer hooked up to my 42inch TV. I basically use it as a monitor, I sit in a lazy boy with a wireless keyboard and mouse, and play video games. I have people over and they sit in the other lazy boy and can play too. I have 2 usb controllers(not any more expensive than buying a PS2 controller) no need for a hub or an adaptor(it's dual shock controller too check out logitechs site sometime). I also have a big ass joystick for flight sims and mech warrior(love that on the big tv). I'm outputting at 1080p so it has an amazing resolution. My friend keep telling me to buy a PS3 or 360 to play games. I do like the idea of xbox live but they tell me I should get a PS3 for the blue-ray well have you looked at the price of a blue-ray drive for a computer lately the blueray burners can be cheaper than your PS3. I do have a wii that I play on occasion cause I like the controller and Resident Evil 4 is a blast, but the experience is probably as good as for the PS3 or xbox360 minues a few games that I miss(though each console has it's exclusives that you miss unless you buy all 3 consoles). If I have 4 people over I typically rock out the wii anyways(it's more of a crowd pleaser anyways). Most of my friends I play games with have a computer and the ones that really like to game live in other cities(I moved about 5 hours away from my gamming friends), though it is fun when they come up and bring the 360 and we rock out in rockband or COD4.
I won't say that the 360 or PS3 are a bad choice, but most of the time your going to be hooking them up to a TV that has HDMI capabilty and if your computer doesn't have an DVI port on the back it probably won't support the game your going to want to play anyways.
The biggest problem with PC games is FPS with multiplayer, you just don't get split screen for a PC so you can have more then one guy on the same game. Controllers are only useful(usually) if your doing emulation. You can't emulate the newest games on a PC that just won't work. Outside of a lan party PC's are usually only good for single player action or online play(by your self). If I ever wanted to get my other friends who aren't gamers playing I would need a PS3 or a 360. Wii is a crowd pleaser but it wears off after awhile and you want to play something like COD4 or some other FPS that doesn't happen on the Wii easily and I already stated the problem with the computer.
But for the lone gamer PC can be a logical choice and you shouldn't have to be locked into a console that's basically a PC with a special OS in it.
are you implying that we could observe something with quantum mechanics? Cause that would be cool, I wish I had a better understanding of quantum physics so that I could understand how quantum entanglement works and how each one comes joined with the other, also how you can observe something that's always in a flux. I always found it very VERY interesting maybe I'll audit a university class someday just for fun.
cool I didn't know that John Hodgman worked for free. I'll have to get him for my next birthday party.
He might not be as famouse as some of the people in the other add but they are all paid. I thought that the MAC ads were always trolling making them seem pompous. I hated them. I don't like the Microsoft comericals but at least they don't go around saying that MACs are stupid... just racist...
actually Vista was a good idea. The XP operating system needed to be updated to keep up with the friendly user interface that OSX uses. The problem came after Vista was conceptualized when they kind of missed the point. You see they needed better security and better user interface. It's not an easy thing to accomplish putting the two together. If you looked at OSX you would see that it has alot of security flaws that just arn't taken advantage of. I'm not starting an Apple flame war here, I'm just saying Microsoft was trying to do alot of things and fucked it up. When I got the OS for evaluation the security took away from the user experiance and the things that they added to it to help with the interface seemed to slow the computer down painfully. I bought a laptop that came with Vista and it had horrible battery life and slowed the computer down alot. I ended up killing aero and a few other things and it wasn't as bad but then it was basically XP so I installed it for program compatibilty. I wouldn't say I hate vista it came with some pretty cool features. Non of witch would make me need to switch.
Windows 7 will hopefully be what Vista was suppose to be. But to say that Vista wasn't a good idea is wrong. That good idea just got shit on.
I don't think I've done allot of gaming on a laptop let alone a starbucks. I do get what your saying but I think that technology has advanced enough that it might work with a bluetooth adapter and have a very small battery like my wireless headphones do. I can compare my wireless headphones that I got 2 years ago with the ones I got 5 years ago and theres a huge difference. Though I wouldn't care if there was a wire on them, 3D would be sweet.
Anyways technology has come a long way since they first came out and I have no doubt that newer versions will be less cords and lighter weight.
Is this really that extreme? I mean I wouldn't want random people trying to be P.I.'s out there they should be kept track of and made accountable. Their actions should be able to be reviewed and position denied if they are found to be acting outside the law. Having a license to do something means that they are accountable to their actions. A license lets someone know they are.
Now the thing is should you be able to operate or hire someone without a license? I guess you should be able to if you really wanted. I mean if I thought my brother could take my appendix out without much trouble it's my stupidity that let him do that. He was stupid enough to try and practice without training and a ticket saying he was able to. I was stupid enough to think the same damn thing.
A licensed investigator also effects the people he's investigating who would want him to have ethics and a certain amount of accountability like not faking pictures or breaking and entering to plant evidence. It still happens but they could loose their license and their creditability. Honestly I see something like a license to drive or investigate where it effects more than the people that are in the contract(the client and the investigator) needing a license by law.
Maybe I just ramble on with run on sentences too but you can't make me fix em you don't have a license :P
I'm sure he knew what might happen when he decided to protest in China about Tibet. I commend him for that, it might get some attention to people around the world to his cause. I think he either had to have had some seriouse balls or have been a little nieve to think of what would happen if he was detained by athorities. I don't think hes a dumb man he knew what he was doing and he knew what would probably happen.
Hopefully they just ship him home after a couple days or weeks and this doesn't get too ugly for him.
On another note "I know hippies. I've hated them all my life. I've kept this town free of hippies on my own since I was five and a half. But I can't contain them on my own anymore. We have to do something, fast!" hehe China is Cartman
I agree but how has the same thing not backfired on apple? Their one ad was marketing that Macs are used for fun, they had what's his name from the daily show, showing XP was only used for business stuff. Well I've never used a mac for anything but photo editing and video editing. The number of games on it are not that great. I can't play CS: source or COD4 without booting into an XP partition. I don't get it. I guess they may be trying to say that the experience is more fun but I don't see that when they are making fun of XP for using a calculator. So what XP is good for business but not regular consumer, and it has games more than OSX any ways, this wasn't a very good ad.
They should stick to their stability like having the windows character go crazy and the MAC guy doing like a Zen meditation thing. "Pick something a little more stable" then jump back to the windows character and have him say "I black out for a minute there just need to get ahold of myself, and have him go into a seizure. Classic.
Anyways Microsoft maybe couldn't pull this off but I could see Nokia doing a simular ad campain.
The GPL does some things I don't think you are aware of. It makes people who use the GPL code release their changes. This keeps companies like Microsoft from taking a project changing it with new features editing the current code and releasing it without releasing the source code.
I would say that the licensing that BSD uses is closer to having no copyright. This is why wine switched licensing. GPL keeps people from profiting from steeling code and selling it with changes without opensourcing it. Without GPL or any copyright their may not be opensource(I think their would but their could not be as well).
The problem isn't being able to make a fusion reaction the myth is making a cold fusion reaction. They are different. I recall a story about some kid that made one of these for a science fair in the states I think. They called in a group of people to take radiation readings and make sure it was safe once they knew what it was. But yeah I wonder why they can't make these things self sustaining and produce more energy than is put in like the sun.
thank you.
Thats great because Ni-MH don't suffer from the memory effect like some rechargeable batteries do(at least not to a large extent). Ni-MH batteries are good because they work at a higher voltage longer than a alkaline battery but have a sudden drop off. This makes it hard to determine when the batteries are about to die. This makes them good for a hybrid(some already use Ni-MH like the prius) car but how does that work for a EV car?
The one question I have about batteries in a car is if the weight ends up reducing some of the millage able to be produced by them. Also the waste that is produced by these batteries as even though they are rechargeable they do have an end of life. How much are they to replace?
The solution that I heard of that I think sounds kick ass is the compressed air. You use compressed air to push the cylinders in the car, it's easy to use a compressor hooked up to either a solar panel or plugged in at home. The air is fairly light, and recharging a tank on the road would be as single as pulling up to an air compressor and paying for some air(allot faster than waiting for the car to charge). It's easy to see what the psi is in a tank if it needs filled soon. It's basically converting electricity into a lightweight easy to access medium. Air stations could have a solar panel plant with a windmill to create electricity for the air compressors. This idea gets me excited in a non sexual way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_car
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/22/1543232&from=rss
I'm 100% onboard with that unless someone else sees issues with it.
Do you have any statistics on how long a typical computer is suppose to last for compared to apples? My grandmother was still using my 486 until Christmas when we gave her a new laptop. That was only so she could go on the internet and check email on a decent OS. The thing still runs like a son of a bitch. I have only ever thrown out one computer because of the motherboard caps blowing, I've had about 6 computers. My parents are still using the same 1ghz duron I built for them about 4-6 years ago.
The ipod should have a longer life expectancy, my zen vision has lasted me about 3 years and is still on the original battery. My wifes cousins kids jumped up and down on that thing one time when I had it in my jacket pocket on the bed at her grandma's it didn't get dinted or scratched(not to mention the number of times I dropped it) still works awesome, and the battery is now just starting to not work great but I can buy a replacement.
I hear people saying apples products work longer than anything else they are built better and all that junk, but really are they really the best? I'm thinking they are just PC's with a very nice OS. Their life expectancy might be better than some cheap ass dell or HP but thats why I buy a Think pad(probably costs a much as an mac). I got a second hand dell laptop that lasted 3 years and that thing went through a beating. I think they are over priced, if you want to spend that money on an OS thats not mainstream go for it, I'll probably run some form of *nix over having to buy some over priced computer without a second mouse button(I know you can use any mouse for a mac but their laptops frustrate me especially if you dual boot).
I'm not bashing Apple I don't think their products aren't worth something to some people I just think that the iPod should last more than 18 months and their computers shouldn't be worshiped.
maybe you should stop trying to flame the one guy around here that actually goes out to make a difference.
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/2211235 as well as a million other posts about the subject.
So why don't you look at more than the guys UID and back off. Because acting like a child makes you a newb no matter what your UID is.
http://news.slashdot.org/search.pl?query=newyorkcountrylawyer
Thats a good point but would those companies stick around if they can't get the cheap labour this is probably what the Chinease government is looking at. The other factor is that there are so many people looking for work that you can cut wages and people would complain but if you went on strike they would just go hire the other 300 people looking for jobs in the area.
I'm not agreeing with it I'm just saying thats how it is.
I'm confused isn't there already laws against child abuse, harassment and a few other things that she did that we don't need to go around with the current charges that threaten freedom of speech? Wrongful death suite something must fit better than this? Maybe I'm completely wrong here but this seems silly.
Text messaging might be a good way to curb this as I always thought the problem was holding the phone up to your head. if thats the case then the future children have nothing to worry about they would rather not hold the bloody thing up to their head. But then we might have to worry about finger cancer.
well you could have two computer, have the camera point at the second computer while you browse the internet with the camera on you, your PHD friend goes and writes your test on the other side with the camera hooked up(i mean it can stay attached to the existing computer and point at another one.
Your assuming that the people who covered up the aliens were part of the whitehouse government and not part of the military or a different branch that doesn't have turn over. You're also assuming that the Watergate scandle it's self wasn't a conspiracy to remove a president out of the whitehouse, and who would have orcastrated that. Also I think Elvis is involved in some way. I mean no one has seen him in years.
It wouldn't have been brought up as prior art because the patent is talking about an analog controller with built in rumble. The rumble in the n64 controller was modular meaning it could be added by attaching a device. This means that even though they had both sets of technology they didn't put it together until the gamecube was developed which was after the patent was filed.
but the arcade joystick didn't rumble did it? I've never used an analog joystick at an arcade that rumbled. Thats what this patent is all about, the N64 had an analog joystick wich pre-dates these patents but the rumble was not built into the controller but rather an add on. The summery is a little vague on that but it's not just analog sticks it's analog sticks with built in rumble. This is probably why they sued Microsoft and Nintendo and not Sony as Sony released their dual shock with rumble around the time the patent was made up and might be able to say they had developed it before the patent, which would be prior art. Sony was sued by a different company for their rumble(can't remember which).
Theres a few comics that go into detail about how the joker needs batman and batman needs the joker. How they constantly go after eachother but neither wants, or can do what it takes to end the battle. The Dark Knight Returns goes into this as well as some other ones I can't remember.
Definatly loved the killing joke, this movie reminds me how the joker tried to break comissioner gordon. Telling Batman that Dent was where Rachel was so that he would save him. This joker was a little more intelligent and all the best comic book portails have him that way. With the dialog that the joker had when talking to dent in the hospital I would have to say he was a better joker(or my favorite version of him).
Yeah I'm the same way I quit my job they were kind of hosing me, they never payed millage, phone, or overtime I had a contract that stated I should get all of these things and benefits(which they eventually got for the company and gave me the day before I resigned it was a crap plan). They were a small firm, and I setup half of their systems with another guy. I gave 2 weeks wrote down all the stuff I had done but forgot a few things. They still hire me back for consulting but if they ask for a password I give it to them for free. Thats their stuff and so the password is theirs as well. Typically it's something i forgot to write down(I was involved in allot of systems and not every password I remembered to write down). But my employer for all the crap was very nice(they were just poor almost to the point of folding a couple times) which makes a huge difference as well. I have had bad managers and I will not give them an ounce of help(besides maybe a password) because they were jerks and I could spend my time doing something else.
So good for you for handling it the way you did, very professional.