You lost me at "webbased". I'm not on the 'net for a good portion of the time I need to work in my calendar and contact app. I also need the calendar to sync with my pda, as that's all I have in the field sometimes. Since I'm not in a big city, WiFi doesn't exist, and I can't even get mobile internet in about 1/2 of my area (analog only cell coverage, where coverage even exists).
Nope, I'm tied to a local solution, with periodic updates over a shared internal network. If I could find a way out, I would, but part of the problem is that I don't have much time for research (too busy with "work"). I can't even express how happy I'd be to ditch MS Outlook. Heck, it doesn't even do what I need it too, and it's phenomenally annoying at times, but it's running and it keeps my appointments and contacts, and it doesn't involve spending time to re-work.
Seriously, I view remote apps as dangerous and uncontrollable. I don't have an IT staff, or a local webserver. I'm on my laptop most of the time, and (around me) there are precious few places I can get on the 'net when I'm out of the office, and most of them wan't me to pay several dollars for an hour or two of time (no, I don't live in/near a big city). Online apps don't work for me, and certainly not for a mission critical app like my calendar.
Unfortuntaly, unless (or until) lightining will synch with my pda, I can't really use it.
That's my upcoming dilemma. I use a different app for my pocket pc for calendars (Informant). Thing is, although they don't have a desktop version, they use the outlook database, so all my contacts and calendar is in Outlook. My email is Tbird. I'm not too sorry that email isn't mobile for me - I carry too much shit around in my email (pop server, never delete the local versions). I'm getting a real admin asst soon, and we'll need to share calendars and contacts. Which, economically, means MS SBS. I'm not looking forward to it, to be honest. Add that to my (hopefully) impending switch from cell and pda to cell/pda combination, and outlook is getting less and less seperable from me. Not a comfortable felling, I assure you.
Oh, sure, give it a USB plug and let it run off computer power if you need to, but with bluetooth out there, why in the world would you make a handheld device in a corded-only model?
Hardly. The problem isn't getting it to most people, it's getting it to the last 1%. Sometimes you just have to decide that it's not economically feasable to serve that last percent. Translation: if you live in the sticks, you'd better give DirecTV a call, 'cause I don't feel like paying for you to get a faster internet connection. If you really want to stay on dialup, get lynx.
Of all the things I would like to see the political parties of these united states do, as I would prioritize them this is somewhere down on page 700 or so.
With all of the things that could be done to make this country better, universal broadband isn't really what I think is going to bring the Democrats back into the majority . I'm just ashamed to even be registered as a democrat if this is what their big plans are.
How about limiting corporate control of the law making process? How about dropping our spending under two trillion dollar a year. HOW ABOUT PAYING DOWN THE 7 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT. How about opening up the federal healthcare group to all US citizens or permanent residents.
Don't get me wrong, broadband is a wonderful thing - but universal broadband isn't really a "hot-button" issue for Joe and Jane America.
"We" didn't, and I happen to have a patent on "Inventing something new that everyone wants." It was filed in early 2002, but I have inhouse development files which document our research activities quite a bit further back. I anticipate the patent will be granted with the most recent round of inquiries and, needless to say, all of these whippersnapers will be receiving a letter from my lawyers any day now. I'll be suing BusinessWeek as well, for..um...I don't really know yet, but it seems that McGraw-Hill has a market cap of close to 20B, and I feel that I should be entitled to at least half of that.
Oh, come on. You know your nipples got hard when you read the headline. 8 cores, 64GB of memory, onboard scsi with built in raid. Of course we can't afford it. You're not going to bed Keira Knightley either, but that doesn't mean she's "boring".
So, would the workers in such union companies be able to, um, unionize? I mean, if they chose a competitor union company for organization, that would seem to be a vote of no confidence in the management of their own company, but if they chose their own company and ever had to walk out or strike, who would be left to negotiate the return?
Yes, yes, I know, there isn't a proven vaccine for H5N1 yet, but the likelihood of creating one is fairly reasonable to expect. So...
Get every shcool age child, especially those under 12, into a clinic to be vaccinated. From the view of protecting the public, the CDCs limits on vaccinations for the elderly, infant, and asthmatic make little sense. Yes, I know - those are the people most likely to die from influenza, they should get vaccinated, too. But little kids are such a strong vector for any disease - primarily due to their lack of proper hygene regimen - that they should really be the ones to target. Keep the kids from getting it and its far less likely to be passed from child to child in school/daycare/playgroup, and then to the rest of the family (including elderly relatives), and on through the chain of human interaction.
I would gladly give up my dose if I knew that every kid in every primary school would get theirs.
BTW - I heard that a bunch of flu vaccine went to waste this year in the US. I'm prat of the problem because I didn't get mine. Why? I wasn't allowed to until after a certain date. By the time that date came around, we were half way through the flu season. I suspect most of us in the "healthy" population figured that by the time we were allowed to get vaccinated and it take full effect, we would be through most of the flu season, and there would be no point. It's like buying disabiliy insurance when your a year or two from retirement...why bother? Good intentions (by the CDC), but poorly implemented. It will only make it harder for the companies making these (relatively) low-margin products to continue.
for the mainstream population to embrace the debit card concept. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but if I'm going to be slinging plastic left and right, I want it to be somebody elses money until I get the statement and verify that all the charges to (insert 16 digits here) are, in fact, ones which I have authorized. Its just too easy to swipe a number and go to town.
Do you trust yourself (with a high credit limit) less than you trust someone making $5/hr, or some shady internet site with your bank account? Oh, sure, you can dispute that charge. But guess what - that money is gone from your account until they decide to credit you back that transaction. If you don't discover the error for a few days or *gasp* until the end of the month when your statement comes in, you could be writing rubber (e)checks for all your monthly expenses. I wouldn't want to bet a couple hundred dollars that the bank will reimburse you for your NSF fees and vendor NSF charges - especially since I've asked, and several managers have confirmed that they will not reimburse those charges.
I'm sure there's a small population out there who cannot get even a secured credit card. Okay, I'm fine with that - situations vary. But these things seem to be way too popular/numerous to be limited to those folks. To me, debit cards are the worst of both worlds - your money available on a card (nearly as bad as cash), but with the merchants and banks tracking your every purchase. *shakes head*
Disclaimer: I carry cash for most personal transactions. That's how I budget. I take out a fixed dollar amount each week, and when that's gone, I stop spending money for the week. If that cash gets lost or stolen, odds are good that I'm probably going to be out less than $50. Disappointing, but that's a pretty small sum, and its never happened in my adult lifetime. Big purchases & net transactions go on credit card, the latter amount being subtracted from the next week's withdrawel. Since I keep 2-3 months of expenses in my checking account, a debit card is a liability I do not want.
Can you believe how small the screen is relative to the unit as a whole? I mean the bezel looks enormous, and it appears to be mostly unused - a 5 way pad and a couple of buttons add at a good 2" R/L and 1.25-1.5" T/B. Why not have the 5 way on a slideout and buttons on the side, or even just a single fat side? I think it might play better with a 9" screen and very little bezel. Keep all the buttons on one side and let the thing rotate the display 180 for lefties/righties. For me it would just have to fit in a 6x9.5 form factor (1/2 sheet, like my Franklin Planner used to be), and have a nice cover. I'd probably drop $400 on that product if it had a really good scheduler/contacts program. With a good sleep mode, the batteries might only need to survive 4-6 hours of constant use, for my purposes.
You're going to look pretty stupid holding that up to the side of your head to talk, though, don't you think?
I'd buy one for $300 if it could double as a web browser and a really snazzy home theater remote control. It's got to be fast to turn on and fast to sync up to a wifi net, and the battery better last for about 4-6 hours running full tilt, and at least 2-3 weeks on standby. It might work as a PDA replacement with the right scheduling software and calendar functions, plus really good pen based input. Aside from that, you're back into vertically integrated applications that have really small markets (relative to desktop OSs).
Sounds more like accounting. Recognize an output to be incorrect, trace path of errors, correct errant entry. They don't call them "Financial Scientists".
Regardless of the measures they took, if he didn't have a contract with them that prevented his reverse-engineering, I think they're SOL. That's the danger of a trade secret - if somebody figures it out without inside knowledge (ie: theft), then there's no restriction on them from building your product or releasing the information.
Now, if there's a EULA involved with the purchase...well, we all know that's where the fun begins, right?
That's sort of what it looks like. Do you suppose the on/off nature of the field is simple multi-point grounding scheme that is switchable (un ungrounded cage is transparent, right?). I'm guessing that they wouldput a repeater into the room for non-cell traffic. Then again, maybe that's what they're doing - just turning a cell repeater on and off to get across the boundary. Based on TFA, its hard to tell.
The press release sounds like it was written by somoeone who has never worked in an integrated production environment. Pro/E has had the end-to-end capability for close to a decade (though at $50k a seat). I didn't like (or didn't trust) the meshers in the 90s, and solid elements also didn't always behave properly, especially at boundries, so I did most of the work by hand. Parts of the writeup seem to suggest that the FEM created would contain boundries that would remain static, and the re-meshing would only occur in defined areas, reducing the amount of time to create and (ideally) invert the matrix on the next iteration (sorry it been a long time since I did FEM, excuse the glossyness of that statement). If thats the case, you're really only talking savings in computer time, which for common manufactured parts is probably down in the noise, costwise - who cares if you have to solve a 1e4DOF model if you can do it in a few seconds? The abstract of the actual paper, linked in another post, seems to imply that they're not using FEM to solve the optimization, which would be revolutionary.
I dont' know about you guys, but I was ready to believe SCO was about to lump itself in with Amway. I mean, they're at the bottom, why not just fornicate with whomever happens to be there too?
Would it be so hard to make the read-only bit work? It seems like such a simple thing, but if you set a file (say foo.doc) to read only, then open it in word, you can save back to that file with not even a mention that the file is marked ro. Mark a file read only, and then delete it, and the os will ask you if you want to move the file to the recycle bin, even though it's read only. Why bother even having the bit if all your apps are going to ignore it?
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You lost me at "webbased". I'm not on the 'net for a good portion of the time I need to work in my calendar and contact app. I also need the calendar to sync with my pda, as that's all I have in the field sometimes. Since I'm not in a big city, WiFi doesn't exist, and I can't even get mobile internet in about 1/2 of my area (analog only cell coverage, where coverage even exists).
Nope, I'm tied to a local solution, with periodic updates over a shared internal network. If I could find a way out, I would, but part of the problem is that I don't have much time for research (too busy with "work"). I can't even express how happy I'd be to ditch MS Outlook. Heck, it doesn't even do what I need it too, and it's phenomenally annoying at times, but it's running and it keeps my appointments and contacts, and it doesn't involve spending time to re-work.
SquirellMail requires, um, a web server?
Seriously, I view remote apps as dangerous and uncontrollable. I don't have an IT staff, or a local webserver. I'm on my laptop most of the time, and (around me) there are precious few places I can get on the 'net when I'm out of the office, and most of them wan't me to pay several dollars for an hour or two of time (no, I don't live in/near a big city). Online apps don't work for me, and certainly not for a mission critical app like my calendar.
Unfortuntaly, unless (or until) lightining will synch with my pda, I can't really use it.
That's my upcoming dilemma. I use a different app for my pocket pc for calendars (Informant). Thing is, although they don't have a desktop version, they use the outlook database, so all my contacts and calendar is in Outlook. My email is Tbird. I'm not too sorry that email isn't mobile for me - I carry too much shit around in my email (pop server, never delete the local versions). I'm getting a real admin asst soon, and we'll need to share calendars and contacts. Which, economically, means MS SBS. I'm not looking forward to it, to be honest. Add that to my (hopefully) impending switch from cell and pda to cell/pda combination, and outlook is getting less and less seperable from me. Not a comfortable felling, I assure you.
No, no, it's "give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll go sit in a boat all day and drink beer."
Oh, sure, give it a USB plug and let it run off computer power if you need to, but with bluetooth out there, why in the world would you make a handheld device in a corded-only model?
Hardly. The problem isn't getting it to most people, it's getting it to the last 1%. Sometimes you just have to decide that it's not economically feasable to serve that last percent. Translation: if you live in the sticks, you'd better give DirecTV a call, 'cause I don't feel like paying for you to get a faster internet connection. If you really want to stay on dialup, get lynx.
Of all the things I would like to see the political parties of these united states do, as I would prioritize them this is somewhere down on page 700 or so.
With all of the things that could be done to make this country better, universal broadband isn't really what I think is going to bring the Democrats back into the majority . I'm just ashamed to even be registered as a democrat if this is what their big plans are.
How about limiting corporate control of the law making process? How about dropping our spending under two trillion dollar a year. HOW ABOUT PAYING DOWN THE 7 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT. How about opening up the federal healthcare group to all US citizens or permanent residents.
Don't get me wrong, broadband is a wonderful thing - but universal broadband isn't really a "hot-button" issue for Joe and Jane America.
...at your age, Mozart was already dead.
"We" didn't, and I happen to have a patent on "Inventing something new that everyone wants." It was filed in early 2002, but I have inhouse development files which document our research activities quite a bit further back. I anticipate the patent will be granted with the most recent round of inquiries and, needless to say, all of these whippersnapers will be receiving a letter from my lawyers any day now. I'll be suing BusinessWeek as well, for..um...I don't really know yet, but it seems that McGraw-Hill has a market cap of close to 20B, and I feel that I should be entitled to at least half of that.
Oh, come on. You know your nipples got hard when you read the headline. 8 cores, 64GB of memory, onboard scsi with built in raid. Of course we can't afford it. You're not going to bed Keira Knightley either, but that doesn't mean she's "boring".
So, would the workers in such union companies be able to, um, unionize? I mean, if they chose a competitor union company for organization, that would seem to be a vote of no confidence in the management of their own company, but if they chose their own company and ever had to walk out or strike, who would be left to negotiate the return?
Yes, yes, I know, there isn't a proven vaccine for H5N1 yet, but the likelihood of creating one is fairly reasonable to expect. So...
Get every shcool age child, especially those under 12, into a clinic to be vaccinated. From the view of protecting the public, the CDCs limits on vaccinations for the elderly, infant, and asthmatic make little sense. Yes, I know - those are the people most likely to die from influenza, they should get vaccinated, too. But little kids are such a strong vector for any disease - primarily due to their lack of proper hygene regimen - that they should really be the ones to target. Keep the kids from getting it and its far less likely to be passed from child to child in school/daycare/playgroup, and then to the rest of the family (including elderly relatives), and on through the chain of human interaction.
I would gladly give up my dose if I knew that every kid in every primary school would get theirs.
BTW - I heard that a bunch of flu vaccine went to waste this year in the US. I'm prat of the problem because I didn't get mine. Why? I wasn't allowed to until after a certain date. By the time that date came around, we were half way through the flu season. I suspect most of us in the "healthy" population figured that by the time we were allowed to get vaccinated and it take full effect, we would be through most of the flu season, and there would be no point. It's like buying disabiliy insurance when your a year or two from retirement...why bother? Good intentions (by the CDC), but poorly implemented. It will only make it harder for the companies making these (relatively) low-margin products to continue.
for the mainstream population to embrace the debit card concept. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but if I'm going to be slinging plastic left and right, I want it to be somebody elses money until I get the statement and verify that all the charges to (insert 16 digits here) are, in fact, ones which I have authorized. Its just too easy to swipe a number and go to town.
Do you trust yourself (with a high credit limit) less than you trust someone making $5/hr, or some shady internet site with your bank account? Oh, sure, you can dispute that charge. But guess what - that money is gone from your account until they decide to credit you back that transaction. If you don't discover the error for a few days or *gasp* until the end of the month when your statement comes in, you could be writing rubber (e)checks for all your monthly expenses. I wouldn't want to bet a couple hundred dollars that the bank will reimburse you for your NSF fees and vendor NSF charges - especially since I've asked, and several managers have confirmed that they will not reimburse those charges.
I'm sure there's a small population out there who cannot get even a secured credit card. Okay, I'm fine with that - situations vary. But these things seem to be way too popular/numerous to be limited to those folks. To me, debit cards are the worst of both worlds - your money available on a card (nearly as bad as cash), but with the merchants and banks tracking your every purchase. *shakes head*
Disclaimer: I carry cash for most personal transactions. That's how I budget. I take out a fixed dollar amount each week, and when that's gone, I stop spending money for the week. If that cash gets lost or stolen, odds are good that I'm probably going to be out less than $50. Disappointing, but that's a pretty small sum, and its never happened in my adult lifetime. Big purchases & net transactions go on credit card, the latter amount being subtracted from the next week's withdrawel. Since I keep 2-3 months of expenses in my checking account, a debit card is a liability I do not want.
Can you believe how small the screen is relative to the unit as a whole? I mean the bezel looks enormous, and it appears to be mostly unused - a 5 way pad and a couple of buttons add at a good 2" R/L and 1.25-1.5" T/B. Why not have the 5 way on a slideout and buttons on the side, or even just a single fat side? I think it might play better with a 9" screen and very little bezel. Keep all the buttons on one side and let the thing rotate the display 180 for lefties/righties. For me it would just have to fit in a 6x9.5 form factor (1/2 sheet, like my Franklin Planner used to be), and have a nice cover. I'd probably drop $400 on that product if it had a really good scheduler/contacts program. With a good sleep mode, the batteries might only need to survive 4-6 hours of constant use, for my purposes.
You're going to look pretty stupid holding that up to the side of your head to talk, though, don't you think?
I'd buy one for $300 if it could double as a web browser and a really snazzy home theater remote control. It's got to be fast to turn on and fast to sync up to a wifi net, and the battery better last for about 4-6 hours running full tilt, and at least 2-3 weeks on standby. It might work as a PDA replacement with the right scheduling software and calendar functions, plus really good pen based input. Aside from that, you're back into vertically integrated applications that have really small markets (relative to desktop OSs).
Sounds more like accounting. Recognize an output to be incorrect, trace path of errors, correct errant entry. They don't call them "Financial Scientists".
Regardless of the measures they took, if he didn't have a contract with them that prevented his reverse-engineering, I think they're SOL. That's the danger of a trade secret - if somebody figures it out without inside knowledge (ie: theft), then there's no restriction on them from building your product or releasing the information.
Now, if there's a EULA involved with the purchase...well, we all know that's where the fun begins, right?
And don't forget - Nickel. It's (one of) the expensive part(s) of stainless steel.
I thought that was what the box at the right hand side of the Firefox toolbar was for. ;-)
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Yeah, but that's just confirmation that the labcoat signifies power , which is exactly the effect that most are going for. (Note, I did not say "all")
That's sort of what it looks like. Do you suppose the on/off nature of the field is simple multi-point grounding scheme that is switchable (un ungrounded cage is transparent, right?). I'm guessing that they wouldput a repeater into the room for non-cell traffic. Then again, maybe that's what they're doing - just turning a cell repeater on and off to get across the boundary. Based on TFA, its hard to tell.
The press release sounds like it was written by somoeone who has never worked in an integrated production environment. Pro/E has had the end-to-end capability for close to a decade (though at $50k a seat). I didn't like (or didn't trust) the meshers in the 90s, and solid elements also didn't always behave properly, especially at boundries, so I did most of the work by hand. Parts of the writeup seem to suggest that the FEM created would contain boundries that would remain static, and the re-meshing would only occur in defined areas, reducing the amount of time to create and (ideally) invert the matrix on the next iteration (sorry it been a long time since I did FEM, excuse the glossyness of that statement). If thats the case, you're really only talking savings in computer time, which for common manufactured parts is probably down in the noise, costwise - who cares if you have to solve a 1e4DOF model if you can do it in a few seconds? The abstract of the actual paper, linked in another post, seems to imply that they're not using FEM to solve the optimization, which would be revolutionary.
I dont' know about you guys, but I was ready to believe SCO was about to lump itself in with Amway. I mean, they're at the bottom, why not just fornicate with whomever happens to be there too?
...Woooooooosh!
Would it be so hard to make the read-only bit work? It seems like such a simple thing, but if you set a file (say foo.doc) to read only, then open it in word, you can save back to that file with not even a mention that the file is marked ro. Mark a file read only, and then delete it, and the os will ask you if you want to move the file to the recycle bin, even though it's read only. Why bother even having the bit if all your apps are going to ignore it?