It's a neat to, but until it's able to work on any paper or surface, it's just a toy.
For instance, it will *never* make in in an office setting, if you'd have to increase a good portion of your office supplies budget by 60% or more.
(A thought: if you could print out dotted sheets of paper in your laser printer, without being sued under the DMCA or for patent/copyright violations (don't laugh.) it *might* be a little more justifiable.)
And it's awfully expensive, and it doesn't look like the end of it will hold up to extensive chewing. I tend to chew my pens.
"Although not referring specifically to the Mallinson case, [Steve Ballmer] added it may be necessary to 'weed out' employees who did not live up to Microsoft's code of behaviour."
(from the article)
And in Related news, Microsoft is to hire as many retired ex-Nazis as they can find.
See, the trick to winning that race is 1) making sure your insurance is paid up and 2) swerving into the other guy about two seconds before you actually get the green light.
"Deductible on a Geo Metro: $200. Satisfaction of trashing some yuppie daddy's kid's (who was cocky (or stupid) enough to wanna race a freakin' METRO) new audi TT for $200: priceless."
This seems to me like just one more in a very, very, VERY long series of excuses and fingerpointing as to why the Big Dig is taking so damn long and is so many times over the original budget.
Poor planning, kickbacks, under-the-table deals by a lot of mobbed-up politicians, engineering firms, state employees, laborers. THAT'S what's been wrong with the Big Dig -- or for that matter, Massachusetts -- since day one.
The information may be freely available, but more oten it's made available contingent to you agreeing to some terms of service -- usually those terms being, "hey, don't steal my fucking web site." In either case, though, it's not free to be redistributed by anyone unless the COPYRIGHT HOLDER (your words and emphasis.) expressly grants such a privilege, robots.txt files and owners' responses after-the-fact notwithstanding.
The Wayback Machine is quite possibly the GREATEST example of copyright violation on the web. They steal damn near every piece of content on the web and call it a "library." Guess what folks? A *real* library pays for most, if not all, of it's content. (At the very least, they obtain their content by considerably more legal methods: grants, donations, interlibrary loans, etc... They don't just take a shopvac into a book store and suck up everything in sight.)
And to see them remove one person on the basis of possible copyright violations (note to all: the Xenu guys is most likely a nut; it's not like I'm crusading for the guy.), that's just rich, man.
...but I can't remember telephone numbers any more.
My parents. My brother. My best friends. I couldn't tell you what they're phone numbers are. Even if I'm calling on a land line, I need to get the cell phone out and look up the number. It's like my brain can't be bothered with the task anymore. Really scary stuff.
Okay. So, the Chinese Ministry of Keepin' the Brotha Down is going to see all these experimental packets bouncing off or whizzing past the firewall while we Free Stupid People go bouncing the URLS/Addresses of our favorite probably-controversial-and-harmful-to-the-people-i n-china web sites, and you don't think those sites that aren't blocked are going to end up that way before long?
Idiots. Quit helping them out.
Let's hope they don't follow car rental folks...
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... and charge you $1000 if you try to cram a load and a half in the thing at one time.
Remeber, we were all supposed to have 1-bit screens on the old monochrome palms, but it turns out, they could really deliver 4-bit greyscale!
Palm delivered us three of those four extra bits for YEARS, and we never thanked them.
I think it call kinda comes out in the wash.
Oh, and one more thing: Who cares? It's not like you're going to do world-perfect VR by strapping 2 palms in front of your eyes, so what's the big deal?
Please note that in order to work properly, the system library files PLACEBO.DLL and GULLIBLE.DLL must be present in your C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory, and C:\EXPLORE.EXE must be moved from the C:\WINDOWS directory into the Recycle Bin.
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It's a neat to, but until it's able to work on any paper or surface, it's just a toy.
For instance, it will *never* make in in an office setting, if you'd have to increase a good portion of your office supplies budget by 60% or more.
(A thought: if you could print out dotted sheets of paper in your laser printer, without being sued under the DMCA or for patent/copyright violations (don't laugh.) it *might* be a little more justifiable.)
And it's awfully expensive, and it doesn't look like the end of it will hold up to extensive chewing. I tend to chew my pens.
What can we say? Dominating a planet makes one hungry. :)
Trust me, man, my dishwasher doesn't have three holes for easy access. If it did, I'd never leave the house.
...but package this with a RealDoll that can wash dishes, and I'll buy it!
"Although not referring specifically to the Mallinson case, [Steve Ballmer] added it may be necessary to 'weed out' employees who did not live up to Microsoft's code of behaviour."
(from the article)
And in Related news, Microsoft is to hire as many retired ex-Nazis as they can find.
Of course I would.
See, the trick to winning that race is 1) making sure your insurance is paid up and 2) swerving into the other guy about two seconds before you actually get the green light.
"Deductible on a Geo Metro: $200.
Satisfaction of trashing some yuppie daddy's kid's (who was cocky (or stupid) enough to wanna race a freakin' METRO) new audi TT for $200: priceless."
Hey man, don't knock the Geo Metro!
;)
Let's see an Audi TT drive from Pittsburgh, PA to Iowa City, IA and back on *two* cylinders and *still* get close to 50mpg!
(Yes, I know, the Metro had 3 cylinders. This particular weekend, though, mine had had two, thanks to a burned-up spark plug.)
Oh, I'm sure you can *make* the claim here, but try enforcing it. Good luck with that.
This seems to me like just one more in a very, very, VERY long series of excuses and fingerpointing as to why the Big Dig is taking so damn long and is so many times over the original budget.
Poor planning, kickbacks, under-the-table deals by a lot of mobbed-up politicians, engineering firms, state employees, laborers. THAT'S what's been wrong with the Big Dig -- or for that matter, Massachusetts -- since day one.
Lindows *does* have a strategic agreement with AOL/Netscape.
1. They *did* agree to AOL/Netscape's terms for licensing Netscape in such a manner.
2. They did so as a part of their overall strategy.
3. You *can* customize how Netscape looks/feels on PCs with their Client Customization Kit or whatever their calling it nowadays.
So? They spun it a little bit. Nowhere did they say "We are now butt-buddies with AOL/Time-Warner." What's the big deal?
*shrug*
Much ado about absolfrickinlutely nothing.
Wrong.
The information may be freely available, but more oten it's made available contingent to you agreeing to some terms of service -- usually those terms being, "hey, don't steal my fucking web site." In either case, though, it's not free to be redistributed by anyone unless the COPYRIGHT HOLDER (your words and emphasis.) expressly grants such a privilege, robots.txt files and owners' responses after-the-fact notwithstanding.
Wrong.
If you go into a book store with a shopvac, and then dump the books in the middle of Central Park for all to read - - you've still stolen the books.
Theft isn't just keeping it to yourself.
...because this is just fucking ironic.
The Wayback Machine is quite possibly the GREATEST example of copyright violation on the web. They steal damn near every piece of content on the web and call it a "library." Guess what folks? A *real* library pays for most, if not all, of it's content. (At the very least, they obtain their content by considerably more legal methods: grants, donations, interlibrary loans, etc... They don't just take a shopvac into a book store and suck up everything in sight.)
And to see them remove one person on the basis of possible copyright violations (note to all: the Xenu guys is most likely a nut; it's not like I'm crusading for the guy.), that's just rich, man.
I can just see my chair, 3 steps into the assembly process, suddenly prompting me to register my chair at the IKEA web site.
...but I can't remember telephone numbers any more.
My parents. My brother. My best friends. I couldn't tell you what they're phone numbers are. Even if I'm calling on a land line, I need to get the cell phone out and look up the number. It's like my brain can't be bothered with the task anymore. Really scary stuff.
Okay. So, the Chinese Ministry of Keepin' the Brotha Down is going to see all these experimental packets bouncing off or whizzing past the firewall while we Free Stupid People go bouncing the URLS/Addresses of our favorite probably-controversial-and-harmful-to-the-people-i n-china web sites, and you don't think those sites that aren't blocked are going to end up that way before long?
Idiots. Quit helping them out.
... and charge you $1000 if you try to cram a load and a half in the thing at one time.
It's not HCFA any more, either. It's the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
*grin*
But you're right, more fun and bureaucracy all around. Yay us in the health care business.
HIPAA isn't an oversight group. It's a law.
Say it with me now: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
Remeber, we were all supposed to have 1-bit screens on the old monochrome palms, but it turns out, they could really deliver 4-bit greyscale!
Palm delivered us three of those four extra bits for YEARS, and we never thanked them.
I think it call kinda comes out in the wash.
Oh, and one more thing: Who cares? It's not like you're going to do world-perfect VR by strapping 2 palms in front of your eyes, so what's the big deal?
...until your kid pawns you for a forty-ouncer of Bud and 3 crack-rocks.
Gee. I wonder if the publisher is willing to provide replacement media if at anytime the book should become unreadable or defective.
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There's how you do it. DARPA, please send me my check. You probably already know my address.
$20 to the first person to produce a movie that can be edited down by CleanFlicks to exactly *one* frame.
Please note that in order to work properly, the system library files PLACEBO.DLL and GULLIBLE.DLL must be present in your C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory, and C:\EXPLORE.EXE must be moved from the C:\WINDOWS directory into the Recycle Bin.
And if you act now, we'll throw in this free HANDS FREE CELL-PHONE ADAPTER!