weblogs are short, text based, easy to skim or ignore. Video you have to sit through it. You can't compile a big list of the videos and look at them at a glance. Its a different medium from tv.
Just because you can provide video doesn't mean its the best format for weblogs.
Even with video phones I think you will still find more people SMS than audio call, and more people audio call than video call.
Holleywood has denied any attempt to profit off september 11 with the release of the new Bruce Willis action movie "Bin Laden go bye bye". Industry sources say that its a tribute to the fallen heros and every dollar spent will only prove the success of western capitalism and how great the US is.
These tiny davids like Walmart must be helped to stand up against the Evil Goliaths like FatWallet. As soon as you let people find out about a special, they are going to buy the product, causing massive cost overruns as the stores have to RESTOCK the shelves with new product. The cost of the actual wholesale merchandise is a large part, maybe 25% of the cost that the consumer in the end pays. Many people forget about this and only concentrate on the 5% that goes to salaries, 5% rent, 20% marketing and 45% profit. Somebody has to pay this 25%, and you can be sure it's not going to be FatWallet.
I say retailers should fight back, by introducing a copyright friendly pricing structure. Tickle me Barbies only 48 DoodlyDishus Dollars, Ninety N-N-N-N-Nine cents. Surely that creative effort can be copyrighted.
Interesting, didn't it say there wasn't a floppy connector.
I also think they are in a different area than Apple. Apple is selling more expensive machines to less technical users than this company. Apple users are less likely to require a floppy/serial port/printer port anyway (reasoning that their hardward will be newer), and they can reasonably expect that users that do will fork out for the shiny USB version they conveniently sell.
This company will lose sales if they don't include things that people need. People wont buy the external USB version, a) because of the extra price, and b) because if you want a small computer you don't want large bits hanging off it.
"We are strongly considering having a BSD/MIT style license."
Ugghhhh.... I'm not suggesting these guys are con artists, but wouldn't it be wiser to get them to select the license first. If they are bad people then they can still choose a license which makes unreasonable demands on people ie money, change restrictions etc.
If even one project of this type gets screwed over, then it could effectively kill the model.
Yeah but open source means those die hard fans can just fork their own geek version of the band.
And let IBM play their mainstream crap, with 2.5 minute radio edits.
How cool would it be if you could do that with your favourite bands. Maybe I could still be hearing new stuff from the Sneaker Pimps with Kelli Dayton singing.
I personally would trust one single well maintained security service, rather than hundreds of them all around the world. Each with different laws and security, and human admins etc.
It only takes one of them to get cracked and you are toast, depending on the information contained. I can only see spreading out this information as increasing the chance of my information getting cracked.
I'd just rather it wasn't microsoft run on microsoft software.
Microsoft suddenly has millions of VB programmers that can now write enterprise level code. I'm talking distributed code, web services, security instead of just forms hiding a database table.
OH! My God! What have they done!
Plus its basically a new language that they will have to learn. Least its adding features I suppose. Bertrand Meyer seems happy to take out features from Eiffel just to get on the bandwagon.
I've run Swing apps that respond like they are native. Things like JDiskReport and even Intellij is not too bad. Thats on a 650MHz machine, I imagine you couldn't tell the difference on a 1.7GHz.
The naive implementation of the event handling is what gives the bad performance. VB must intelligently handle this issue because I can't imagine VB programmers all coding background processing to free up the event queue.
Plus Swing apps look a lot better, even look damn sexy on Mac OSX!
Maybe someone should go into business making chains for these wireless devices. "Always losing you mouse, why not securely chain it to your keyboard so you never have to look for it again." Probably should make the chain look like a normal mouse cord.
People might steal the keyboards so better chain them to.
People who buy more than one of these might forget which computer is which monitor, so we better have a chain (again styled like a cord) to connect the wireless screen to the computer.
Given the huge number of patents seemingly covering commonplace online technology, is it likely that the USPTO itself infringes patents.
If so what are the rules on this. Could this be used to point out the absurdity of some of the patents.
Or is it a situation where the government is allowed to use any patent for wahtever it wants.
"USPTO infringes HyperGlobalMegaTechs patent on Cathode Ray tube to Retina image transfer"
A System where the purchaser registers their credit card details with the vendor in advance.
The vendor at their discretion and with no intervention from the purchaser charges the purchaser for products and delivers them.
Enhancements:
1. Base the timing and choice of item on excess stock or marketing drives by large companies.
2. Tailor the choices to purchaser based on web surfing habits.
3. Send out high energy food and drink when the user is surfing late at night.
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but the image isn't loaded everytime. Particularly if they return to google multiple times in one browsing session.
So the light entry page really does help google feel fast.
I mean seriously tight, how much would a used computer from the second half of last century cost?
I'll be interested to hear whether this keeps his attention longer than the stick and hoop he got for christmas.
weblogs are short, text based, easy to skim or ignore. Video you have to sit through it. You can't compile a big list of the videos and look at them at a glance. Its a different medium from tv.
Just because you can provide video doesn't mean its the best format for weblogs.
Even with video phones I think you will still find more people SMS than audio call, and more people audio call than video call.
Holleywood has denied any attempt to profit off september 11 with the release of the new Bruce Willis action movie "Bin Laden go bye bye". Industry sources say that its a tribute to the fallen heros and every dollar spent will only prove the success of western capitalism and how great the US is.
These tiny davids like Walmart must be helped to stand up against the Evil Goliaths like FatWallet. As soon as you let people find out about a special, they are going to buy the product, causing massive cost overruns as the stores have to RESTOCK the shelves with new product. The cost of the actual wholesale merchandise is a large part, maybe 25% of the cost that the consumer in the end pays. Many people forget about this and only concentrate on the 5% that goes to salaries, 5% rent, 20% marketing and 45% profit. Somebody has to pay this 25%, and you can be sure it's not going to be FatWallet.
I say retailers should fight back, by introducing a copyright friendly pricing structure. Tickle me Barbies only 48 DoodlyDishus Dollars, Ninety N-N-N-N-Nine cents. Surely that creative effort can be copyrighted.
Interesting, didn't it say there wasn't a floppy connector.
I also think they are in a different area than Apple. Apple is selling more expensive machines to less technical users than this company. Apple users are less likely to require a floppy/serial port/printer port anyway (reasoning that their hardward will be newer), and they can reasonably expect that users that do will fork out for the shiny USB version they conveniently sell.
This company will lose sales if they don't include things that people need. People wont buy the external USB version, a) because of the extra price, and b) because if you want a small computer you don't want large bits hanging off it.
"We are strongly considering having a BSD/MIT style license."
Ugghhhh.... I'm not suggesting these guys are con artists, but wouldn't it be wiser to get them to select the license first. If they are bad people then they can still choose a license which makes unreasonable demands on people ie money, change restrictions etc.
If even one project of this type gets screwed over, then it could effectively kill the model.
The old test of how much you liked a movie was how many times you saw it at the cinema.
Now it is going to be how many useless copies of the DVD you have lying around the house.
In Australia they have been selling perishable products for years. Bread, milk, fish etc, all degrading after a varying amount of time (1-7 days).
The government legislated "fair use" and now they have to warn you. "Best if used within 7 days after opening". "Best before 11/03/03".
No danger of Larry managing things to death.
http://www.oraclebmwracing.com
Yeah but open source means those die hard fans can just fork their own geek version of the band. And let IBM play their mainstream crap, with 2.5 minute radio edits. How cool would it be if you could do that with your favourite bands. Maybe I could still be hearing new stuff from the Sneaker Pimps with Kelli Dayton singing.
Big ads all over the place all about how switching was the worst mistake she ever made.
She lost her job, became a public laughing stock, all because she switched to XP.
I personally would trust one single well maintained security service, rather than hundreds of them all around the world. Each with different laws and security, and human admins etc.
It only takes one of them to get cracked and you are toast, depending on the information contained. I can only see spreading out this information as increasing the chance of my information getting cracked.
I'd just rather it wasn't microsoft run on microsoft software.
Microsoft suddenly has millions of VB programmers that can now write enterprise level code. I'm talking distributed code, web services, security instead of just forms hiding a database table.
OH! My God! What have they done!
Plus its basically a new language that they will have to learn. Least its adding features I suppose. Bertrand Meyer seems happy to take out features from Eiffel just to get on the bandwagon.
I've run Swing apps that respond like they are native. Things like JDiskReport and even Intellij is not too bad. Thats on a 650MHz machine, I imagine you couldn't tell the difference on a 1.7GHz.
The naive implementation of the event handling is what gives the bad performance. VB must intelligently handle this issue because I can't imagine VB programmers all coding background processing to free up the event queue.
Plus Swing apps look a lot better, even look damn sexy on Mac OSX!
I don't like the way it sounds but reading the press release, maybe they can make him sign an NDA.
From bylaws (in press release):
"The Corporation shall establish reasonable procedures to protect against the inappropriate disclosure of confidential information."
Surely an NDA would fall into this category, given they believe he is someone that is likely to publicly raise issues.
That said, the state law "absolute right" would seem to contradict that.
Maybe someone should go into business making chains for these wireless devices. "Always losing you mouse, why not securely chain it to your keyboard so you never have to look for it again." Probably should make the chain look like a normal mouse cord.
People might steal the keyboards so better chain them to.
People who buy more than one of these might forget which computer is which monitor, so we better have a chain (again styled like a cord) to connect the wireless screen to the computer.
Given the huge number of patents seemingly covering commonplace online technology, is it likely that the USPTO itself infringes patents.
If so what are the rules on this. Could this be used to point out the absurdity of some of the patents.
Or is it a situation where the government is allowed to use any patent for wahtever it wants.
"USPTO infringes HyperGlobalMegaTechs patent on Cathode Ray tube to Retina image transfer"
A System where the purchaser registers their credit card details with the vendor in advance.
The vendor at their discretion and with no intervention from the purchaser charges the purchaser for products and delivers them.
Enhancements:
1. Base the timing and choice of item on excess stock or marketing drives by large companies.
2. Tailor the choices to purchaser based on web surfing habits.
3. Send out high energy food and drink when the user is surfing late at night.