Regarding their patent people keep talking about: Why don't they sue Fuji? They're making instant films (and also cameras) now. And - to me - it seems that Fuji is much more responsible for Polaroid's problems than digital cameras are.
I guess the question to ask then is: how is Fuji's instant business doing against digital cameras these days?
If they're still doing well, I think we can chalk up Polaroid's problems to bad management.
Digital camera: $600.
Cost to develop: $0.
Web site for party pictures: $20/month.
Expression on photographed person's face when everyone in the office cruises that site: Priceless!
I'll bet that Kodak is thanking Zen for being beaten out of their bid to enter the "instant" market by Polaroid's lawyers. (This was.. 10-15 years ago?)
Toss their X10 site into your hosts file as 127.0.0.1. (In Windows95/98, rename x:\windows\hosts.sam to hosts.ini, and reboot of course.) That will shut them up!
I recall someone a while ago posting a list, or link to a list to/. of advertiser sites to toss into hosts to make most ads go away.
That depends on how the government defines manufacturing. Sticking CDs and a manual into a box and plastic wrapping it might qualify. Who knows when the government sets the rules?
The paperwork for employees and work permits for aliens still apply.
You left out all the government paperwork involved in hiring employees, allowing people from France to work in the U.S., permits for manufacturing, environmental impact, lawyers and accountants, and so on, and so on...
Details, details! Cracking oil into gasoline is a trivial chemical engineering problem.:^)
Making hydrogen is a physics problem: Energy out = energy in - losses. (By using fossil fuels, we are cheating the physics problem by using stored solar power, but it'll run out someday.)
Going solar in a big way will surely be a boon to the legal profession.
I can imagine all the court cases when a neighbor's tree or a new large building blocks someone's access to sunlight.
The power companies will get ansy over free power, and governments will burn the midnight hydrogen trying to figure out how to tax it.
P.S. Electronics surplus stores usually have those "Solar car charger" panels fairly cheap. A few of those, some parts for the charger curcuit and an old but not dead car battery make a dandy emergency power supply.
And if your garage doesn't have a convenient south-facing slope? And Arizona is a good place for solar power, but here in Canada, we have these things called winter and cloudy days.
Also, my apartment, while south-facing, has limited space to solar-panel. (And I suspect the management would object.)
Solar is good, solar is great, we should do a lot more of it. But it's not a complete solution.
Yeah, that's the problem with hydrogen: You can't just dig a hydrogen well, you've got to make it.
We need hydrogen (or fuel cells, or whatever) and a good primary source of energy like fusion power (still a sliding 10-20 years away), otherwise we'll still be burning dead dinosaurs to make the hydrogen.
The technical problems of storage and dispensing will be solved when we're willing to spend as much on it as we do on the petrolium industry.
Subpoena, n.: From the root "sub", below, and the Latin "poena" for male organ or penis. Therefore, "below the penis" or "by the balls."
I can't believe that they're trying to claim that they didn't make a threat. "Threat? Us? No no no, we only expressed concern over his continued well-being..." What a bunch of cheap thugs!
Another possibility is a mobile alarm clock that looks for people if it has not been turned off, and wakes them up.
Why do I get this mental picture of a relentless, unstoppable robotic alarm clock (with an Austrian accent) that's going to come find you and wake you up, no matter where you are?
If I was going to take something fun into space, it would be one of those battery-powered traveller fans -- just the thing for flying around the inside of Alpha or the shuttle. (Outside it would be rather pointless, of course.:^) Could be useful for collecting loose potato chips too!
Reversing the battery will change the fan from a pusher into a puller prop.
I was cruising/. shortly after 9am when it bogged down. After waiting a bit, I decided life was too short for this, I popped over to canoe.ca to read the news. That was bogged down too, but I got the text that a plane hit the WTC. I hit refresh, and went and made tea.
When I got back, the story said two planes. At that point, I turned on the 4" B&W TV that I keep near the computer (in case I want to watch a little TV, heh). Didn't bother changing the channel, didn't need to.
I forget if/. stayed sluggish for long. It would be interesting to know what happened with the loading of the net in general that morning. (And if any chunk of routing was taken down by the attack.)
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Regarding their patent people keep talking about: Why don't they sue Fuji? They're making instant films (and also cameras) now. And - to me - it seems that Fuji is much more responsible for Polaroid's problems than digital cameras are.
I guess the question to ask then is: how is Fuji's instant business doing against digital cameras these days?
If they're still doing well, I think we can chalk up Polaroid's problems to bad management.
Polaroid makes (or made) cameras that clamp to lab instruments to make "instant" hard copy.
Perhaps they should go with the flow and make one that clamps to the "view finder" screen on digital cameras for quick (but expensive) hard copy?
Digital camera: $600.
Cost to develop: $0.
Web site for party pictures: $20/month.
Expression on photographed person's face when everyone in the office cruises that site: Priceless!
I'll bet that Kodak is thanking Zen for being beaten out of their bid to enter the "instant" market by Polaroid's lawyers. (This was .. 10-15 years ago?)
Toss their X10 site into your hosts file as 127.0.0.1. (In Windows95/98, rename x:\windows\hosts.sam to hosts.ini, and reboot of course.) That will shut them up!
/. of advertiser sites to toss into hosts to make most ads go away.
I recall someone a while ago posting a list, or link to a list to
That depends on how the government defines manufacturing. Sticking CDs and a manual into a box and plastic wrapping it might qualify. Who knows when the government sets the rules?
The paperwork for employees and work permits for aliens still apply.
You left out all the government paperwork involved in hiring employees, allowing people from France to work in the U.S., permits for manufacturing, environmental impact, lawyers and accountants, and so on, and so on...
Those must have been big tarrifs!
Details, details! Cracking oil into gasoline is a trivial chemical engineering problem. :^)
Making hydrogen is a physics problem: Energy out = energy in - losses. (By using fossil fuels, we are cheating the physics problem by using stored solar power, but it'll run out someday.)
Going solar in a big way will surely be a boon to the legal profession.
I can imagine all the court cases when a neighbor's tree or a new large building blocks someone's access to sunlight.
The power companies will get ansy over free power, and governments will burn the midnight hydrogen trying to figure out how to tax it.
P.S. Electronics surplus stores usually have those "Solar car charger" panels fairly cheap. A few of those, some parts for the charger curcuit and an old but not dead car battery make a dandy emergency power supply.
And if your garage doesn't have a convenient south-facing slope? And Arizona is a good place for solar power, but here in Canada, we have these things called winter and cloudy days.
Also, my apartment, while south-facing, has limited space to solar-panel. (And I suspect the management would object.)
Solar is good, solar is great, we should do a lot more of it. But it's not a complete solution.
Yeah, that's the problem with hydrogen: You can't just dig a hydrogen well, you've got to make it.
We need hydrogen (or fuel cells, or whatever) and a good primary source of energy like fusion power (still a sliding 10-20 years away), otherwise we'll still be burning dead dinosaurs to make the hydrogen.
The technical problems of storage and dispensing will be solved when we're willing to spend as much on it as we do on the petrolium industry.
And when it says "Are you Sarah Conner? This is your wake-up call.", reply "Sorry, wrong number."
I wouldn't think that setting up a CD production line would be that slow or expensive.
:^) Hopefully they'll get it all sorted out soon.
Obviously I don't understand the problem.
s/cheap/expensive
Ah, legalese...
Subpoena, n.: From the root "sub", below, and the Latin "poena" for male organ or penis. Therefore, "below the penis" or "by the balls."
I can't believe that they're trying to claim that they didn't make a threat. "Threat? Us? No no no, we only expressed concern over his continued well-being..." What a bunch of cheap thugs!
My Casio Databank isn't that large, and does what I need: Time, reminders, phone numbers, and a calculator to work out my share of the lunch bill.
I'm told that it's very retro-geek. I think that's a good thing...
Another possibility is a mobile alarm clock that looks for people if it has not been turned off, and wakes them up.
Why do I get this mental picture of a relentless, unstoppable robotic alarm clock (with an Austrian accent) that's going to come find you and wake you up, no matter where you are?
...the problem of arranging for the house to be in zero-G is left as an excercise for the student...
If I was going to take something fun into space, it would be one of those battery-powered traveller fans -- just the thing for flying around the inside of Alpha or the shuttle. (Outside it would be rather pointless, of course. :^) Could be useful for collecting loose potato chips too!
Reversing the battery will change the fan from a pusher into a puller prop.
I was cruising /. shortly after 9am when it bogged down. After waiting a bit, I decided life was too short for this, I popped over to canoe.ca to read the news. That was bogged down too, but I got the text that a plane hit the WTC. I hit refresh, and went and made tea.
/. stayed sluggish for long. It would be interesting to know what happened with the loading of the net in general that morning. (And if any chunk of routing was taken down by the attack.)
When I got back, the story said two planes. At that point, I turned on the 4" B&W TV that I keep near the computer (in case I want to watch a little TV, heh). Didn't bother changing the channel, didn't need to.
I forget if
The Teletubbies are just dupes of the real ring-leader of the operation: Barney!
Many Trekkies are Kirkites, who worship the Holy trinity of Kirk, Spock and McCoy.
I looked around the census site, but it's not exactly well laid out for finding things.
Did Xenu beat Obi-Wan?
I find your lack of faith distrubing...
I guess I'll to replace my current system at least twice over the next six years to keep up...
That's a lotta trasistors!