unfortunately, this product (http://www.microsoft.com/catalog/display.asp?subi d=22&site=11315), uses a dongle, hence the usb/ps2 compatability. i would rather have a cable than a bunch of junk floating around the desktop. a bluetooth mouse and keyboard would be cool however. my bet is that apple is out with it first--it's nice to control the hardware.
my grandfather made automated machinery to produce these connectors. interestingly, though amphenol and others made these connectors, they never really automated the process--i guess with military contracts, the govenrment will pay whatever is necessary--so, machinists created each component for a connector individually. expensive!!! my grandfather automated the process, creating a machine which would create one a second, which was difficult at the time--ww2. the machines ran without much attention, using statistical methods and optical comparitors, they made sure the quality was high. and, he was paid more for the scrap copper than for the material required! so this business ran rather well! amphenol later purchased the business. it is also interesting to hear the advantages which one could get by producing electrical components during ww2--atomic clearance! you could pretty much get whatever you wanted. equipment was scarce at the time, and with clearance you could pull up to the warehouse and take whatever you needed from those without clearance. being caught reselling machinery and such was nearly treason.
hey, i've got a great idea let's go to war and spend more money on it than we do on all of education so that i can stuff my suv full of fuel for the trip to mickie d's! you know those tv's in every room need plenty-o-power! please children don't exhibit the violence we teach, and go to church on sunday to avoid doing the drugs we do!
oh, "funding won't change anything," so please cut my taxes! my @ss! That is exactly why i live in one of the best funded districts (yes, high taxes!), and by some strange coincidence it is one of the top school districts!
is to first figure out what the correct response is, cost that response, and build it into the price of whatever product one might consider. then, the real price is evident. we are as a society a bit too removed from reality. reality costs! my property taxes are very high because i have chosen to live in a district where the schools are the absolute best. fortunately, the choice was available to me. it seems we have left too much to choice and those who can afford it. 2c.
you might be surprised to find out that the FBI "often" uses rational reasons for implementing such things as solitary confinement. SURPRISE! definitely be afraid... perhaps citizens should be aware of those rights they are letting go of in the name of security.
isn't this similar to the simple computer in terms of what we need in a general purpose computer. if your definition is a "digital hub" then the task is complex. if your definition is office applications, email, browsing, etc., then what the hell do you need hardware wise? i have 1500 hundred cd's, so converting them into mp3's has not been something that has consumed me. but, i do watch dvd's on my laptop. perhaps by limiting some functionality, the legality will not be an issue. most of my time is spent communicating, not consuming.
we are anticipating a war against a monster we created, and which will likely cost nearly a hundred billion dollars. do we ask why? how much would it cost to truly fund an educational system which includes everybody? (1/100 of the militaries budget.) where does the money go? hundred dollar toilet seats are simply the extreme! hopefully we as a democracy will wake up and pay attention rather than watching the tube. perhaps we will one day learn to treat the world around us (both people and land) with respect rather than paying up at the end.
so, it allows for device independence. this is not the case with usb, whose purpose is to support keyboards and such. sony/apple/panasonic are interested in 1394 since a home network is created through chained connections, as opposed to needing a home switch/hub. there is also wireless 1394...
we haven't had a real (according to my 16 year-old) television for 8 years, though i do have a 9" color in the closet. he has told me that he really doesn't miss it! whenever i see one, say in a bar, i think i begin to glaze over. but, he does have an ibook, so life's not so bad.
"Cell's designers are engineering the chip to work with a wide range of operating systems, including Linux."
a range of operating systems, and development tools will be created along side the hardare. but, the cellular nature of the distributed processing is very cool. non-pc platforms should give the general purpose computer a good run for the money as a consumer business. how many homes will have pc's when one can run staroffice/openoffice, surf and email from their ps3?
abstracting craft is a book which draws similarities between craft and the digital work many of us accomplish. haptic interfaces are the future, because they are the past--our past. i beleive it is more about separation of displays, as they are referred to in industrial/organizational psychology. here's a link to look at: http://www.eleganthack.com/archives/001896.html
it would be very cool to have the note cards mentioned linked with the digital archive. it's a shame that the possibilities of the web are being sacrificed to selfish concerns. i imagine that the new tenth circle to hell will house hillary and her friends. rot baby!
as well as, "openness, sharing of knowledge, etc..." have ceased to be in the nue improved terrorist-free world. i believe that the puppet (affectionately known as W) has signed a bill effectively limiting such activity, as it might promote a loss of corporate income in the coming quarters.
perhaps the place to start is with a set of requirements. what are the basics a computer should be... text processing, image processing, sound processing, communication, browsing, and asset management... through all of the discussion, there is no set of base requirements, or a process for advancing to more complicated hardware. (hell, why do we upgrade our own computers... mo is better!) zeroconf would be helpful here, as well as tightly integrated hardware. simputer II perhaps.
the antelope is the ibm meta pad concept... here's the article via transmetazone (http://www.transmetazone.com/articleview.cfm?arti cleID=1166). isn't this oqo information a tad old?
unfortunately, this law pretty much kills local/college/independent webcasting, and leaves the the crap from regular radio with a monopoly. the web could provide some really interesting stuff down the road, particularly with wireless capabilities in cell phones. stream'n web broadcasts through your web enabled phone, mmm!
while some people would really like to wait several years for service pack 3, or manually deal with recompiling, others have jobs that only involve computers. while i like to play with the toys, and got mach running on my powermac 6100 four or five years ago, linux is not what i need. the toys are in there, and i loaded more. i am willing to pay a subscription for basically a managed system, particularly one that does not lock me into their world domination plans. apple's updates have been great, and extremely regular in coming. last week their was a download bug, it was fixed yesterday. try that with microsoft. i also replace my computers every two years, so i would generally only have to pay for a year. not too bad when a tibook costs 2500+.
the storage has always been the problem. electric cars were first raced in chicago/indiana at the end of the nineteenth century, and were generally faster than the gas or steam autos. but the storage ran dry rather quickly. torque! particularly with four motors. hot rodding will certainly die, but i imagine people will just put seats on top with a joy stick... whoo, whoo... a long way from when my grandfather built tuckers!
my tibook fits great in my brief case, and it's light. i thought i was going to die lugging around an 8lb dell 7500, though it had a great screen. i can't wait until the tibook has a 16" lcd with real resolution.
i looked at this machine a couple of months ago, and it is large. nice screen, but the japanese like mobile computers, not necessarily portable (in this case). being able to move a desktop is a requirement given the sizes of the apartments in japan. several other japanese electronic companies produce similar profiles for the home market. here's another sony that's cool: http://www.dynamism.com/qr/index.shtml
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unfortunately, this product (http://www.microsoft.com/catalog/display.asp?subi d=22&site=11315), uses a dongle, hence the usb/ps2 compatability. i would rather have a cable than a bunch of junk floating around the desktop. a bluetooth mouse and keyboard would be cool however. my bet is that apple is out with it first--it's nice to control the hardware.
my grandfather made automated machinery to produce these connectors. interestingly, though amphenol and others made these connectors, they never really automated the process--i guess with military contracts, the govenrment will pay whatever is necessary--so, machinists created each component for a connector individually. expensive!!! my grandfather automated the process, creating a machine which would create one a second, which was difficult at the time--ww2. the machines ran without much attention, using statistical methods and optical comparitors, they made sure the quality was high. and, he was paid more for the scrap copper than for the material required! so this business ran rather well! amphenol later purchased the business. it is also interesting to hear the advantages which one could get by producing electrical components during ww2--atomic clearance! you could pretty much get whatever you wanted. equipment was scarce at the time, and with clearance you could pull up to the warehouse and take whatever you needed from those without clearance. being caught reselling machinery and such was nearly treason.
hey, i've got a great idea let's go to war and spend more money on it than we do on all of education so that i can stuff my suv full of fuel for the trip to mickie d's! you know those tv's in every room need plenty-o-power! please children don't exhibit the violence we teach, and go to church on sunday to avoid doing the drugs we do!
oh, "funding won't change anything," so please cut my taxes! my @ss! That is exactly why i live in one of the best funded districts (yes, high taxes!), and by some strange coincidence it is one of the top school districts!
priorities--priceless.
...what do you think this particular one should do differently?
perhaps, actually exist in the real world. there seem to have been enough napkin doodles. why has the home depot house prevailed?
is to first figure out what the correct response is, cost that response, and build it into the price of whatever product one might consider. then, the real price is evident. we are as a society a bit too removed from reality. reality costs! my property taxes are very high because i have chosen to live in a district where the schools are the absolute best. fortunately, the choice was available to me. it seems we have left too much to choice and those who can afford it. 2c.
thank you colleen kollar-kotelly! judges are the ones that generally make the diffference. an FBI rubber-stamp judge is a frightening abuse of power.
you might be surprised to find out that the FBI "often" uses rational reasons for implementing such things as solitary confinement. SURPRISE! definitely be afraid... perhaps citizens should be aware of those rights they are letting go of in the name of security.
isn't this similar to the simple computer in terms of what we need in a general purpose computer. if your definition is a "digital hub" then the task is complex. if your definition is office applications, email, browsing, etc., then what the hell do you need hardware wise? i have 1500 hundred cd's, so converting them into mp3's has not been something that has consumed me. but, i do watch dvd's on my laptop. perhaps by limiting some functionality, the legality will not be an issue. most of my time is spent communicating, not consuming.
ping... ping, ping... ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping...
where the hell did our bandwidth go?
we are anticipating a war against a monster we created, and which will likely cost nearly a hundred billion dollars. do we ask why? how much would it cost to truly fund an educational system which includes everybody? (1/100 of the militaries budget.) where does the money go? hundred dollar toilet seats are simply the extreme! hopefully we as a democracy will wake up and pay attention rather than watching the tube. perhaps we will one day learn to treat the world around us (both people and land) with respect rather than paying up at the end.
so, it allows for device independence. this is not the case with usb, whose purpose is to support keyboards and such. sony/apple/panasonic are interested in 1394 since a home network is created through chained connections, as opposed to needing a home switch/hub. there is also wireless 1394...
we haven't had a real (according to my 16 year-old) television for 8 years, though i do have a 9" color in the closet. he has told me that he really doesn't miss it! whenever i see one, say in a bar, i think i begin to glaze over. but, he does have an ibook, so life's not so bad.
"Cell's designers are engineering the chip to work with a wide range of operating systems, including Linux."
a range of operating systems, and development tools will be created along side the hardare. but, the cellular nature of the distributed processing is very cool. non-pc platforms should give the general purpose computer a good run for the money as a consumer business. how many homes will have pc's when one can run staroffice/openoffice, surf and email from their ps3?
abstracting craft is a book which draws similarities between craft and the digital work many of us accomplish. haptic interfaces are the future, because they are the past--our past. i beleive it is more about separation of displays, as they are referred to in industrial/organizational psychology. here's a link to look at: http://www.eleganthack.com/archives/001896.html
it would be very cool to have the note cards mentioned linked with the digital archive. it's a shame that the possibilities of the web are being sacrificed to selfish concerns. i imagine that the new tenth circle to hell will house hillary and her friends. rot baby!
i have osx loaded on my son's ibook (g3/600) with appleworks... it is quite fast, stable, and plays well with the other apps--word.
as well as, "openness, sharing of knowledge, etc..." have ceased to be in the nue improved terrorist-free world. i believe that the puppet (affectionately known as W) has signed a bill effectively limiting such activity, as it might promote a loss of corporate income in the coming quarters.
maybe it can be hacked to make one of those nifty ultrasonic guns! CAn YOU HeAr ME NOWWW!
perhaps the place to start is with a set of requirements. what are the basics a computer should be... text processing, image processing, sound processing, communication, browsing, and asset management... through all of the discussion, there is no set of base requirements, or a process for advancing to more complicated hardware. (hell, why do we upgrade our own computers... mo is better!) zeroconf would be helpful here, as well as tightly integrated hardware. simputer II perhaps.
the antelope is the ibm meta pad concept... here's the article via transmetazone (http://www.transmetazone.com/articleview.cfm?arti cleID=1166). isn't this oqo information a tad old?
unfortunately, this law pretty much kills local/college/independent webcasting, and leaves the the crap from regular radio with a monopoly. the web could provide some really interesting stuff down the road, particularly with wireless capabilities in cell phones. stream'n web broadcasts through your web enabled phone, mmm!
and clear channel is not exactly a pussycat!
while some people would really like to wait several years for service pack 3, or manually deal with recompiling, others have jobs that only involve computers. while i like to play with the toys, and got mach running on my powermac 6100 four or five years ago, linux is not what i need. the toys are in there, and i loaded more. i am willing to pay a subscription for basically a managed system, particularly one that does not lock me into their world domination plans. apple's updates have been great, and extremely regular in coming. last week their was a download bug, it was fixed yesterday. try that with microsoft. i also replace my computers every two years, so i would generally only have to pay for a year. not too bad when a tibook costs 2500+.
the storage has always been the problem. electric cars were first raced in chicago/indiana at the end of the nineteenth century, and were generally faster than the gas or steam autos. but the storage ran dry rather quickly. torque! particularly with four motors. hot rodding will certainly die, but i imagine people will just put seats on top with a joy stick... whoo, whoo... a long way from when my grandfather built tuckers!
my tibook fits great in my brief case, and it's light. i thought i was going to die lugging around an 8lb dell 7500, though it had a great screen. i can't wait until the tibook has a 16" lcd with real resolution.
i looked at this machine a couple of months ago, and it is large. nice screen, but the japanese like mobile computers, not necessarily portable (in this case). being able to move a desktop is a requirement given the sizes of the apartments in japan. several other japanese electronic companies produce similar profiles for the home market. here's another sony that's cool: http://www.dynamism.com/qr/index.shtml