Looking at these images it doesn't look like the switchs, buttons and toggles actually control anything. So it is more like a mockup with TV's and lots of switchs that don't do anything (other then maybe lightup). Hardly worth 15,000 dollars for something that just looks intersting but serves no actual function.
I have had a VW Golf TDI for about a year now (had a Honda Civic before) and it gets great mileage (the same or better then the Toyota Prius). And generally diesel is cheaper then gasoline. But if you are looking at getting a hybride don't get a VW TDI, it will cost less and last longer (VW desiels last eons it seems), use less fuel and you don't have to worry about the envionmental impact of the batteries.
Probably the best use of your money would be in your own backyard. Insulating your house, buying envionmentally friendly appliances, replacing all your incandecents with compact flouescents and maybe looking into using alterantive energy (photovoltaic, solar heating or whatever is appropriote where you live). You will save yourself money and energy use which will help the envionment and you would be surprised how being an example will generate intrest in your own neighborhood. Once you have done that then look at giving to a cause, or maybe joining a local envionmental group? Giving money is the easy way out, but contributing personally by making your home an example and then going out and helping others will give you the best bang for your buck.
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Haven't these geeks seen Casino? Personally I would prefer to have my limbs intact. As for this article, all it will do is get people who have know idea what they are doing into counting cards, they will lose money etc etc etc. Gambling is fun, Vegas is fun, but you aren't going to make money off it, no matter how many cards you count, and if for whatever reason you make a lot of money, the casino or whatever power that rules will make sure you don't keep it long.
Assuming you have already talked to her and explained to her how you feel and why and she understands then I would take her out and show her some nice Saphire rings, they were the traditional engagement ring until DeBeers got into the picture. And You can get a nice sized Saphire for the cost of a medium sized Diamond. And everyone will notice, cause she will have a good sized blue rock on her hand. If she isn't cool with it for the reasons you described dump her cause she is unreasonable.
My wife actually isn't a big diamon fan (for the social political reasons and the fact that colorless stones are kinda boring), she acutally hinted that she would prefer something other then a diamond, so I got her a nice saphire/platinium/with a couple small diamond bagettes on the side. Probaby the same cost as a single stone gold/diamond combo but I think it is money better spent and my wife loved it.
Why do questions like "If XandX happens what will happen to the people who support it? And is it a good idea to move forward?"
Casting directors and costume people will go the way of horse and buggy makers or lamplighters. Most will move on to other jobs or careers, a few will stay around for the fewer opportunities around, but people will simply move on. I am sure there will be people who don't want things to change, because they will lose control or can't stand change, but things will change and it will effect peoples lives, it happens and it will keep happening as society changes. Maybe it isn't a good change but if you can't roll with it or try to resist it it will roll right over you.
But I know my local public University (UTD) has subscriptions to all the major online DB's and research orginizations, and has copies of most referance and reserach journels online. Personally I still think there is a lot to be said for the print stuff, but most Universities are already setup for the electronic research and study end, getting rid of the big old textbooks that you have to lug around would be nice though.
If I remember right Vantive had a Unix/Linux client in addition to Windows and probably a couple others. Though my guess is Remedy and Vantive are going to be out of your price range, not to mention the fact that both are monolithic pieces of crap (but that is my personaly opinion).
There used to be a couple Unix based text packages (as well as many mainframe based text helpdesk packages). My experiance is while they take a little more training to use most seasoned help desk operators prefered text baed rather then point and click gui (cause once they learned the hot keys they could blaze though tickets faster then you could click). You would also solve the "platform issue" since it would be telnet or ssh type connection to a central host. Should be cheaper overall too, only needing a central server and lesser clients, but I that is my opinion.
I agree, it wouldn't be a popular move, but I don't think doing unpopular things has stopped large coporations in the past. This guys wants to post the EULA as written, which some companies might construe as a very blatant copyright violation.
Problem is we have little idea what the long term effects would be on the envionment. Since we can't yet completely accurately model weather patters on a global scale there is no telling what changing the weather in China could do to the weather in other parts of the world (like maybe drought in Australia or the US?).
Seeing as the new picture looks just like that old picture, and the form factor (the size of a pack of smokes) is about the size, and the price seems about that right for an 8260 (40 bucks isn't exactly "disposable" to most people) and for that matter the button layout is the same as the 8260. But then again maybe it is all one huge coincedence.
I think Title 35, United States Code section 103 which basically says that a worker of ordinary skill, knowing the prior art, would have found the patented invention obvious. Hmmmm, I am a worker of ordinary knowledge and from what I see this invention is pretty obvious. But who knows, that is my opinion
I understand what a patent is and I understand what it is for. I just fail to see anything truely unique in this design. I personally have a problem with a patent system that lets someone make minor changes to something and call it unique, or for that matter patent something generic or in common use. As for prior art I remember seeing sites and having friends build MAME cabinets and such very shortly after MAME came out, and seeing as I don't have a copy of the patent application I can't make a judgement on anything but what I see and I don't see anything that makes this guys MAME console differnt from the one a buddy of mine built a couple years back. But maybe that doesn't exactly meet the legal definition of prior art since it wasn't "published at least 1 year before the patent application or in common use.....blah blah blah". But that is my opinion.
According to the FAQ on that website this unit is patented? WTF? People have been making these years? Can you say prior art? And is Cmdr Taco infringing?
I know Sun Microsystems pays its H1-B employees like it pays its American employees, or at least a hell of a lot closer then what IBM appears to. Some companies aren't ethical. A friend of mine from India worked for Siemans India, got paid something like 5-6 thousand a year (that is 5,000-6,000, which is good money in India) but they would ship him to Europe to deisgn cell stations, they paid his housing and food, but still paid him his India wage. So he came to work for Sun, makes like 80,000 now, which isn't quite what I think the guy is worth, but it is a damn site better then what Siemans paid him and pretty close to what the US wage is.
Were these people more qualified what are your qualifications? Most Indians I know have at least a bachelors in EE or CS, if not degrees in both or Masters degrees. The average american computer type is lucky to have a bachelors. I hate to say this, but maybe your racists attitudes impede your finding employement.
Seems the RIAA/MPAA are almost asking to have the hell sued out them if they even try to use this. The text of the doc says they are allowed to do this only if they:
1. Don't Alter/Delete any files on the end user computer 2. Don't interfere with anyone elses computer other then the file trader 3. Cause more then 50.00 dollars impairment to the end user they are DoS'ing
So the MPAA/RIAA would have to be pretty damn careful not to mess ANYTHING else up. Since later on it says that wrongfully DoS'd people can sue the MPAA/RIAA, assuming they lost more then $250. The question if this is actually consitutinal is how much is your time worth? Are you a consultant who gets billed out at 300 dollars an hour? And losing use of your internet connection for a couple hours while the MPAA/RIAA screw with you costs you a couple thousand? Well step right forward and sue the crap out of the MPAA/RIAA cause the law says you can.
The Soviets used RTG's for their satellites for decades, namely cause they made such crappy solar panels and such. But thanks to them there is a crapload of plutonium orbiting the Earth;)
The fusion material in most of our nuclear weapons is Hydrogen 3, Tritium, it actually has a half life of 12.32 years. So most warheads get a regular refresh every few years. Don't you remember the big stink people were making a few years back when the US stopped tritium production, the military types were worried the Russians would take advantage of our "Decreased state of readiness" since we were letting the tritium in our warheads degrade. Course they restarted tritium production a few years later.
Please tell me its Doc Brown looking for his 1.21 jigawatts
Just so you know the accepted pronunciation of giga was actually "JIGA", hence the usage in Back to the Future, people just stopped using that pronunciation when gigabyte drives became more prevalent in consumer goods cause people saw the G and figured it was said like Go instead of like Giant. So the time machine in the movie was powered by 1,210 megawatts, or 1.21 gigawatts.
My WiFi is supposed to do the same thing, but more often then not I get some nice digital static on my cordless (which is also supposed to frequency hop).
This would be great till someone tries to use the 2.4 ghz cordless phone, or fires up a WiFi laptop, or for that matter cooks some popcorn in the microwave. Not to mention the fact that you probably can't play it around grandpa because of his pacemaker;)
The FCC is an executive agency. It should not be making policy, especially policy of this scope. Haven't you been paying attention to the disastrous results of FCC policy changes in the 1990s? Consolidation of radio into one or two companies. Creation of horizontal media empires. Extensive and undisclosed cross-branding. Death of HDTV.
I live in Dallas, ALL of the major radio stations are owned by Clear Channel, and when they have a "major" advertiser their commercial gets run on ALL their stations at once (or damn near close), so channel flipping doesn't help. All the stations run a similar format, at the same times, and some actually play similar music. Personally I think this approach has totally destroyed radio listening in the Dallas area. The same thing will eventually happen to television if we let the FCC make policy. My personal solution which I recommend is don't watch TV, vote with your dollar, if stuff is crap don't listen to it or watch it.
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Looking at these images it doesn't look like the switchs, buttons and toggles actually control anything. So it is more like a mockup with TV's and lots of switchs that don't do anything (other then maybe lightup). Hardly worth 15,000 dollars for something that just looks intersting but serves no actual function.
I have had a VW Golf TDI for about a year now (had a Honda Civic before) and it gets great mileage (the same or better then the Toyota Prius). And generally diesel is cheaper then gasoline. But if you are looking at getting a hybride don't get a VW TDI, it will cost less and last longer (VW desiels last eons it seems), use less fuel and you don't have to worry about the envionmental impact of the batteries.
Probably the best use of your money would be in your own backyard. Insulating your house, buying envionmentally friendly appliances, replacing all your incandecents with compact flouescents and maybe looking into using alterantive energy (photovoltaic, solar heating or whatever is appropriote where you live). You will save yourself money and energy use which will help the envionment and you would be surprised how being an example will generate intrest in your own neighborhood. Once you have done that then look at giving to a cause, or maybe joining a local envionmental group? Giving money is the easy way out, but contributing personally by making your home an example and then going out and helping others will give you the best bang for your buck.
Haven't these geeks seen Casino? Personally I would prefer to have my limbs intact. As for this article, all it will do is get people who have know idea what they are doing into counting cards, they will lose money etc etc etc. Gambling is fun, Vegas is fun, but you aren't going to make money off it, no matter how many cards you count, and if for whatever reason you make a lot of money, the casino or whatever power that rules will make sure you don't keep it long.
Assuming you have already talked to her and explained to her how you feel and why and she understands then I would take her out and show her some nice Saphire rings, they were the traditional engagement ring until DeBeers got into the picture. And You can get a nice sized Saphire for the cost of a medium sized Diamond. And everyone will notice, cause she will have a good sized blue rock on her hand. If she isn't cool with it for the reasons you described dump her cause she is unreasonable.
My wife actually isn't a big diamon fan (for the social political reasons and the fact that colorless stones are kinda boring), she acutally hinted that she would prefer something other then a diamond, so I got her a nice saphire/platinium/with a couple small diamond bagettes on the side. Probaby the same cost as a single stone gold/diamond combo but I think it is money better spent and my wife loved it.
Why do questions like "If XandX happens what will happen to the people who support it? And is it a good idea to move forward?"
Casting directors and costume people will go the way of horse and buggy makers or lamplighters. Most will move on to other jobs or careers, a few will stay around for the fewer opportunities around, but people will simply move on. I am sure there will be people who don't want things to change, because they will lose control or can't stand change, but things will change and it will effect peoples lives, it happens and it will keep happening as society changes. Maybe it isn't a good change but if you can't roll with it or try to resist it it will roll right over you.
But I know my local public University (UTD) has subscriptions to all the major online DB's and research orginizations, and has copies of most referance and reserach journels online. Personally I still think there is a lot to be said for the print stuff, but most Universities are already setup for the electronic research and study end, getting rid of the big old textbooks that you have to lug around would be nice though.
If I remember right Vantive had a Unix/Linux client in addition to Windows and probably a couple others. Though my guess is Remedy and Vantive are going to be out of your price range, not to mention the fact that both are monolithic pieces of crap (but that is my personaly opinion).
There used to be a couple Unix based text packages (as well as many mainframe based text helpdesk packages). My experiance is while they take a little more training to use most seasoned help desk operators prefered text baed rather then point and click gui (cause once they learned the hot keys they could blaze though tickets faster then you could click). You would also solve the "platform issue" since it would be telnet or ssh type connection to a central host. Should be cheaper overall too, only needing a central server and lesser clients, but I that is my opinion.
I agree, it wouldn't be a popular move, but I don't think doing unpopular things has stopped large coporations in the past. This guys wants to post the EULA as written, which some companies might construe as a very blatant copyright violation.
I think it is pretty enforcable, they are copyrighten, hence they just send you the typical piracy letter (piracy of their copyrighten text).
Problem is we have little idea what the long term effects would be on the envionment. Since we can't yet completely accurately model weather patters on a global scale there is no telling what changing the weather in China could do to the weather in other parts of the world (like maybe drought in Australia or the US?).
Seeing as the new picture looks just like that old picture, and the form factor (the size of a pack of smokes) is about the size, and the price seems about that right for an 8260 (40 bucks isn't exactly "disposable" to most people) and for that matter the button layout is the same as the 8260. But then again maybe it is all one huge coincedence.
I think Title 35, United States Code section 103 which basically says that a worker of ordinary skill, knowing the prior art, would have found the patented invention obvious. Hmmmm, I am a worker of ordinary knowledge and from what I see this invention is pretty obvious. But who knows, that is my opinion
I understand what a patent is and I understand what it is for. I just fail to see anything truely unique in this design. I personally have a problem with a patent system that lets someone make minor changes to something and call it unique, or for that matter patent something generic or in common use. As for prior art I remember seeing sites and having friends build MAME cabinets and such very shortly after MAME came out, and seeing as I don't have a copy of the patent application I can't make a judgement on anything but what I see and I don't see anything that makes this guys MAME console differnt from the one a buddy of mine built a couple years back. But maybe that doesn't exactly meet the legal definition of prior art since it wasn't "published at least 1 year before the patent application or in common use.....blah blah blah". But that is my opinion.
According to the FAQ on that website this unit is patented? WTF? People have been making these years? Can you say prior art? And is Cmdr Taco infringing?
I know Sun Microsystems pays its H1-B employees like it pays its American employees, or at least a hell of a lot closer then what IBM appears to. Some companies aren't ethical. A friend of mine from India worked for Siemans India, got paid something like 5-6 thousand a year (that is 5,000-6,000, which is good money in India) but they would ship him to Europe to deisgn cell stations, they paid his housing and food, but still paid him his India wage. So he came to work for Sun, makes like 80,000 now, which isn't quite what I think the guy is worth, but it is a damn site better then what Siemans paid him and pretty close to what the US wage is.
Were these people more qualified what are your qualifications? Most Indians I know have at least a bachelors in EE or CS, if not degrees in both or Masters degrees. The average american computer type is lucky to have a bachelors. I hate to say this, but maybe your racists attitudes impede your finding employement.
Seems the RIAA/MPAA are almost asking to have the hell sued out them if they even try to use this. The text of the doc says they are allowed to do this only if they:
1. Don't Alter/Delete any files on the end user computer
2. Don't interfere with anyone elses computer other then the file trader
3. Cause more then 50.00 dollars impairment to the end user they are DoS'ing
So the MPAA/RIAA would have to be pretty damn careful not to mess ANYTHING else up. Since later on it says that wrongfully DoS'd people can sue the MPAA/RIAA, assuming they lost more then $250. The question if this is actually consitutinal is how much is your time worth? Are you a consultant who gets billed out at 300 dollars an hour? And losing use of your internet connection for a couple hours while the MPAA/RIAA screw with you costs you a couple thousand? Well step right forward and sue the crap out of the MPAA/RIAA cause the law says you can.
The Soviets used RTG's for their satellites for decades, namely cause they made such crappy solar panels and such. But thanks to them there is a crapload of plutonium orbiting the Earth ;)
The fusion material in most of our nuclear weapons is Hydrogen 3, Tritium, it actually has a half life of 12.32 years. So most warheads get a regular refresh every few years. Don't you remember the big stink people were making a few years back when the US stopped tritium production, the military types were worried the Russians would take advantage of our "Decreased state of readiness" since we were letting the tritium in our warheads degrade. Course they restarted tritium production a few years later.
Please tell me its Doc Brown looking for his 1.21 jigawatts
Just so you know the accepted pronunciation of giga was actually " JIGA ", hence the usage in Back to the Future, people just stopped using that pronunciation when gigabyte drives became more prevalent in consumer goods cause people saw the G and figured it was said like Go instead of like Giant . So the time machine in the movie was powered by 1,210 megawatts, or 1.21 gigawatts.
My WiFi is supposed to do the same thing, but more often then not I get some nice digital static on my cordless (which is also supposed to frequency hop).
This would be great till someone tries to use the 2.4 ghz cordless phone, or fires up a WiFi laptop, or for that matter cooks some popcorn in the microwave. Not to mention the fact that you probably can't play it around grandpa because of his pacemaker ;)
Uh does this really say much about mens brains? The study was entirely female, other studies have shown that mens and womans brains are very differnt.
The FCC is an executive agency. It should not be making policy, especially policy of this scope. Haven't you been paying attention to the disastrous results of FCC policy changes in the 1990s? Consolidation of radio into one or two companies. Creation of horizontal media empires. Extensive and undisclosed cross-branding. Death of HDTV.
I live in Dallas, ALL of the major radio stations are owned by Clear Channel, and when they have a "major" advertiser their commercial gets run on ALL their stations at once (or damn near close), so channel flipping doesn't help. All the stations run a similar format, at the same times, and some actually play similar music. Personally I think this approach has totally destroyed radio listening in the Dallas area. The same thing will eventually happen to television if we let the FCC make policy. My personal solution which I recommend is don't watch TV, vote with your dollar, if stuff is crap don't listen to it or watch it.