I harken back to The Road Ahead by Bill Gates cica 1995. His vision is that all data should be electronic, with the sole purpose of controlling its dissemination and use, plus requiring recurring revenue.
Don't believe me? Read on...
The purpose of laptops in school is to get data on them electronically, with the secondary benefit of books which auto-expire at the end of the school year(s).
This is already being done quite efficiently in some law schools. You purchase a laptop, which contains all the required law books on it electronically. You pay for them as part of the price. But guess what, if you want those books after you graduate, you have a new subscription fee to pay - otherwise your books are rendered unusable. They expire in 4 years after purchase.
In this fashion publishers are ensuring a new guaranteed form of revenue. To a large extent this is already in place with colleges demanding new versions of text books every year, some with ridiculously minor changes. Plus, now it's electronic, with little to no cost being eaten up with shipping, etc. Don't for a minute believe that the books will become cheaper as a result...
WTF changed!? (other than the fat contracts I'm sure the carriers have been working out)
I mean, the flight attendants lose all sense of reality if you're caught using a cell phone. I've been on a couple of flights where the flight attendant took the passenger's cell phone after seeing them take a call.
So... what's changed to make it "safe" all of a sudden?
Combustion engines are NOT efficient
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Vehicles of Tomorrow?
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Combustion engines are NOT efficient. Most four-stroke engines transfer only 20% to 25% of their heat energy into mechanical energy. Then there's the loss of energy due to friction and cooling.
Agreed. If I'm on a server where TKing ocurrs, I just generally leave. I've found a few servers where some old-timers hang out which seems to help. That, or active admins is always nice.
I played the demo of Doom III this weekend, and all I can say is that it was a snooze.
The graphics and sounds were indeed incredible, but the game experience was the same old tired hack-n-slash of old. If you still love the "find keys, bullets, and dodge monsters in dark rooms" from the 90's, you'll like it. Hopefully, this is what the designers wanted. I uninstalled it within a 1/2 hour, just not anything new for me.
Call of Duty United Offensive on the other hand, resurrected my gaming experience with COD, and provided hours of fun single player, and a multiplayer experience that I won't soon get tired of. I'm hoping HL2 will provide the same experience.
Well, it won't matter what "facts" are presented, since each side (left, right) will determine what they want to believe anyway.
However, it doesn't take much to stumble upon well researched information concerning the Swift Boat Veterans themselves, nor the actual photocopies of the citations for John Kerry. I present the following URLs for you to make up your own mind, and I welcome any other URLs:
I must admit, I find it amazing that people continue to attack Kerry's role in Vietnam, while seemingly at the same time perfectly able to ignore the ample facts that George W. Bush didn't make it anywhere near Vietnam, and Vice President Dick Cheney managed to skirt the war entirely. Those are indisuputable facts.
Am I the only one that's worried that VOIP must be deemed tappable in order to be implemented? It scares me that we must legislate something that simple into products. Are we that far behind - shouldn't the spook originazations already have such technology down cold, and have the ability to listen in without really trying?
Hey world, please legislate your VOIP so that we can listen in because we're too technologically stupid to figure it out otherwise. We appreciate your support.
So, you are willing to state that people should be paid lower wages across the board, thus lowering everyone's standard of living, in order to satisfy the "job market"? Why do you think unions were created in the first place? As an American auto worker, you would rather receive Korean wages and live in a ghetto in order to level the playing field?
Don't you think at some level corporations in every nation have a responsibility to ensure that their personnel make a living, comfortable wage? I ask it in that way because I bet that you don't believe that governments should be responsible for ensuring that no-one slips below the poverty level. So, if it's up to companies, who would ensure that? Or, should it be completely left up to companies to ensure each and every person's ability to live?
The essence if stupidity is this - the more we "compete" with third world countries, the more we as a nation are going to lose. Third world countries don't have our living standards, our infrastructure, or many other opportunities we have worked for for so many years. They don't require benefits, which thanks to our broken healthcare industry (read insurance racket) eat up huge portions of company dollars. They don't require fair living wages, benefits, any kind of job security. So how do we compete globally? Do we push our standards into the toilet in order to accomodate corporate greed and government corruption? We have two options - force our standard of living down to the early 1900s level in order to "compete" (what we are doing now), or have a US-based revolution that redefines America as a self-sustaining entity - reliance on our own farmers, manufacturing industry, service sectors, etc. In this mode, we refuse to give up the quality of life we have built for ourselves, and start requiring other countries to come to our level playing field if they wish to participate.
What amazes me is that with America's huge installed base of great programming and IT knowledge, there is no influx of jobs coming from the other direction. Are we SO overpaid that our economy must first experience a massive depression in skills, education and fair wages in order to "compete" (artificially) with the rest of the world? Do other countries' people actually believe that somehow they won't experience the same problems and that they will all become rich and famous; their management won't outsource back to America if the wages are cheaper?
Say what you will about Unions, but my friends, America's Corporate Greed is ready and willing to exploit you, and teach your management the tricks of the trade. If you think we're overpaid over here, then check our statistics on labor at the department of labor and statistics url:BLS. Note that union workers on average get a few $ more per hour than non-union. And yet, people still believe they are evil. This is typical claptrap from businesses that don't wish to impact their profit margins in order to "compete". How soon we forget the awful abuse our parents and grandparents experienced at the hands of large business - and the need that created unions in the first place - it hasn't even been a hundred years. Remember that everything over here costs a LOT MORE than in India or other countries, even if the vast majority of crap (and I do mean CRAP) we buy comes from China (hello, WalMart).
So, anyone care to speculate where the bottom is, and when we'll reach it?
My wife's family has had success (3 people) with Lasik. The key does seem to be a good, reputable doctor, with a pelthora of references. None of them have reported halo or night effects.
HOWEVER
I myself am waiting for the next upcoming lasik surgery, which is already in testing. My vision is truly horrible, -8.5 in both eyes, but fortunately I am able to wear contacts and prevent accidental firestorms as a result of light coming through my coke-bottle lenses.
The new lasik version eliminates the halo and night blindness effect - mostly because the process is now geared exactly to your eye - today's procedures are much more general. I read about this report in either Time Magazine or a Consumer's journal of some sort.
In the long run, it's your eyes, and I can't imagine doing anything to my eyes that doesn't guarantee 100% success. There are far too many horror stories out there for me to feel comfortable with the process yet.
What does migrating visual basic apps have anything to do with open source or the article in general? The whole statement was needless and stupid; except, of course, to fuel the usual tide of visual basic jokes on/., because if you don't program in C or PERL, you must be a loser.
It's disturbing how hard it is for the masses to effectively control their government, and not the other way around. The very few deciding the destiny of millions and rewriting history as they see it.
Here in America we would never have such.... wait a sec, there's someone at my door...
Phone manufacturers (and software developers) are keeping the price of these silly things artificially high.
Back in the late 90s I heard from a developer that Nokia told them at a conference that they *could* make cell phones that updated themselves over the network; they don't because they want cell phone turnover on the rate of about one a year. The service still sucks at times, and the stuff they add on just simply doesn't justify the insane prices you pay. Think about it - $150 for a good new phone, and (average) $60 a month for a decent plan.
That's $870 a year for a PHONE.
Price for a regular home phone, $150 a year, maybe $200 if you add on a good long distance plan. And unlike your cell, the home phone is good for life (we just threw away my grandfather's phone that he got from AT&T in the early 60s).
Perhaps I'm the anomoly, but I want quality service, long battery life, and a decent menu system (are you listening, Motorola?) over every other feature they come up with.
The suits need to ramp up and continue [even faster] at all costs; I'm in great favor of the industry pursuing people as quickly as possible and winning the suits whereever appropriate.
Not because I'm some sort of RIAA nazi, but rather because it is neccessary in order to drive forward new methods of distribution, as well as innovation for smaller, non-mega-supra-corp bands. Once the RIAA/MPAA has shot themselves in the collective feet enough through negative press and marketing, consumers will demand alternative bands, distribution, technology, etc. The mega-bands might even make enough fuss due to lost sales from their mad-as-hell fans.
Me, I'm just sitting back enjoying the ride waiting for that day.
The bottom line is, are they measuring the crime the same as before? If they are, then great, but if not....
Harken to the Bush administration stating that unemployment remains low, but they also changed the way the statistics were gathered and reported - which suits their political agenda rather nicely.
OMG I laughed when I saw your post, because that's exactly what I thought - every time a mad piece of technology starts getting too low on price, an inexplicable, world-wide "Supply Shortage" occurs.
Well, no loss. Fixing the TVs doesn't improve the ghastly crap that is shown on them.
I might add and parrot another thing users are stating below; integration. But not at the office level - that is now pase. Instead watch the ever-increasing tight integration between SharePoint, Exchange, and other Microsoft servers which are quickly becoming the backbone of Office.
Eventually I doubt there will even be an install of office, but instead an office "server" comprised of services between sql server, sharepoint, exchange, drm, and other services.
I was just wondering... based on the logic being presented by the plaintiffs, would AT&T be held responsible in court if I played my MP3s to friends over the phone while they listened in a giant conference call?
Slashdot Mirror
Don't believe me? Read on...
The purpose of laptops in school is to get data on them electronically, with the secondary benefit of books which auto-expire at the end of the school year(s). This is already being done quite efficiently in some law schools. You purchase a laptop, which contains all the required law books on it electronically. You pay for them as part of the price. But guess what, if you want those books after you graduate, you have a new subscription fee to pay - otherwise your books are rendered unusable. They expire in 4 years after purchase.
In this fashion publishers are ensuring a new guaranteed form of revenue. To a large extent this is already in place with colleges demanding new versions of text books every year, some with ridiculously minor changes. Plus, now it's electronic, with little to no cost being eaten up with shipping, etc. Don't for a minute believe that the books will become cheaper as a result...
WTF changed!? (other than the fat contracts I'm sure the carriers have been working out)
I mean, the flight attendants lose all sense of reality if you're caught using a cell phone. I've been on a couple of flights where the flight attendant took the passenger's cell phone after seeing them take a call.
So... what's changed to make it "safe" all of a sudden?
There are some interesting write-ups here:
The Internal Combustion Engine
and
Concept IC Engine
Agreed. If I'm on a server where TKing ocurrs, I just generally leave. I've found a few servers where some old-timers hang out which seems to help. That, or active admins is always nice.
I played the demo of Doom III this weekend, and all I can say is that it was a snooze.
The graphics and sounds were indeed incredible, but the game experience was the same old tired hack-n-slash of old. If you still love the "find keys, bullets, and dodge monsters in dark rooms" from the 90's, you'll like it. Hopefully, this is what the designers wanted. I uninstalled it within a 1/2 hour, just not anything new for me.
Call of Duty United Offensive on the other hand, resurrected my gaming experience with COD, and provided hours of fun single player, and a multiplayer experience that I won't soon get tired of. I'm hoping HL2 will provide the same experience.
It represents the Blue Screen of Death.
However, it doesn't take much to stumble upon well researched information concerning the Swift Boat Veterans themselves, nor the actual photocopies of the citations for John Kerry. I present the following URLs for you to make up your own mind, and I welcome any other URLs:
FactCheck.org
... there are so many more I can't even count, just Google for yourself.
Disinformation.org
Washington Post
Swift Boats Eriposte"
I must admit, I find it amazing that people continue to attack Kerry's role in Vietnam, while seemingly at the same time perfectly able to ignore the ample facts that George W. Bush didn't make it anywhere near Vietnam, and Vice President Dick Cheney managed to skirt the war entirely. Those are indisuputable facts.
Am I the only one that's worried that VOIP must be deemed tappable in order to be implemented? It scares me that we must legislate something that simple into products. Are we that far behind - shouldn't the spook originazations already have such technology down cold, and have the ability to listen in without really trying?
Hey world, please legislate your VOIP so that we can listen in because we're too technologically stupid to figure it out otherwise. We appreciate your support.
So, you are willing to state that people should be paid lower wages across the board, thus lowering everyone's standard of living, in order to satisfy the "job market"? Why do you think unions were created in the first place?
As an American auto worker, you would rather receive Korean wages and live in a ghetto in order to level the playing field?
Don't you think at some level corporations in every nation have a responsibility to ensure that their personnel make a living, comfortable wage? I ask it in that way because I bet that you don't believe that governments should be responsible for ensuring that no-one slips below the poverty level. So, if it's up to companies, who would ensure that? Or, should it be completely left up to companies to ensure each and every person's ability to live?
If Gartner says it, It MUST BE TRUE (tm). Clowns.
The essence if stupidity is this - the more we "compete" with third world countries, the more we as a nation are going to lose. Third world countries don't have our living standards, our infrastructure, or many other opportunities we have worked for for so many years. They don't require benefits, which thanks to our broken healthcare industry (read insurance racket) eat up huge portions of company dollars. They don't require fair living wages, benefits, any kind of job security. So how do we compete globally? Do we push our standards into the toilet in order to accomodate corporate greed and government corruption?
We have two options - force our standard of living down to the early 1900s level in order to "compete" (what we are doing now), or have a US-based revolution that redefines America as a self-sustaining entity - reliance on our own farmers, manufacturing industry, service sectors, etc. In this mode, we refuse to give up the quality of life we have built for ourselves, and start requiring other countries to come to our level playing field if they wish to participate.
What amazes me is that with America's huge installed base of great programming and IT knowledge, there is no influx of jobs coming from the other direction.
Are we SO overpaid that our economy must first experience a massive depression in skills, education and fair wages in order to "compete" (artificially) with the rest of the world? Do other countries' people actually believe that somehow they won't experience the same problems and that they will all become rich and famous; their management won't outsource back to America if the wages are cheaper?
Say what you will about Unions, but my friends, America's Corporate Greed is ready and willing to exploit you, and teach your management the tricks of the trade. If you think we're overpaid over here, then check our statistics on labor at the department of labor and statistics url:BLS. Note that union workers on average get a few $ more per hour than non-union. And yet, people still believe they are evil. This is typical claptrap from businesses that don't wish to impact their profit margins in order to "compete". How soon we forget the awful abuse our parents and grandparents experienced at the hands of large business - and the need that created unions in the first place - it hasn't even been a hundred years.
Remember that everything over here costs a LOT MORE than in India or other countries, even if the vast majority of crap (and I do mean CRAP) we buy comes from China (hello, WalMart).
So, anyone care to speculate where the bottom is, and when we'll reach it?
My wife's family has had success (3 people) with Lasik. The key does seem to be a good, reputable doctor, with a pelthora of references. None of them have reported halo or night effects.
HOWEVER
I myself am waiting for the next upcoming lasik surgery, which is already in testing. My vision is truly horrible, -8.5 in both eyes, but fortunately I am able to wear contacts and prevent accidental firestorms as a result of light coming through my coke-bottle lenses.
The new lasik version eliminates the halo and night blindness effect - mostly because the process is now geared exactly to your eye - today's procedures are much more general.
I read about this report in either Time Magazine or a Consumer's journal of some sort.
In the long run, it's your eyes, and I can't imagine doing anything to my eyes that doesn't guarantee 100% success. There are far too many horror stories out there for me to feel comfortable with the process yet.
What does migrating visual basic apps have anything to do with open source or the article in general? /., because if you don't program in C or PERL, you must be a loser.
The whole statement was needless and stupid; except, of course, to fuel the usual tide of visual basic jokes on
It's disturbing how hard it is for the masses to effectively control their government, and not the other way around. The very few deciding the destiny of millions and rewriting history as they see it.
Here in America we would never have such.... wait a sec, there's someone at my door...
Phone manufacturers (and software developers) are keeping the price of these silly things artificially high.
Back in the late 90s I heard from a developer that Nokia told them at a conference that they *could* make cell phones that updated themselves over the network; they don't because they want cell phone turnover on the rate of about one a year.
The service still sucks at times, and the stuff they add on just simply doesn't justify the insane prices you pay. Think about it - $150 for a good new phone, and (average) $60 a month for a decent plan.
That's $870 a year for a PHONE.
Price for a regular home phone, $150 a year, maybe $200 if you add on a good long distance plan. And unlike your cell, the home phone is good for life (we just threw away my grandfather's phone that he got from AT&T in the early 60s).
Perhaps I'm the anomoly, but I want quality service, long battery life, and a decent menu system (are you listening, Motorola?) over every other feature they come up with.
Just my 2 cents.
The suits need to ramp up and continue [even faster] at all costs; I'm in great favor of the industry pursuing people as quickly as possible and winning the suits whereever appropriate.
Not because I'm some sort of RIAA nazi, but rather because it is neccessary in order to drive forward new methods of distribution, as well as innovation for smaller, non-mega-supra-corp bands. Once the RIAA/MPAA has shot themselves in the collective feet enough through negative press and marketing, consumers will demand alternative bands, distribution, technology, etc. The mega-bands might even make enough fuss due to lost sales from their mad-as-hell fans.
Me, I'm just sitting back enjoying the ride waiting for that day.
The bottom line is, are they measuring the crime the same as before? If they are, then great, but if not....
Harken to the Bush administration stating that unemployment remains low, but they also changed the way the statistics were gathered and reported - which suits their political agenda rather nicely.
look here and at PBS for an example.
Phone Bashing
OMG I laughed when I saw your post, because that's exactly what I thought - every time a mad piece of technology starts getting too low on price, an inexplicable, world-wide "Supply Shortage" occurs.
Well, no loss. Fixing the TVs doesn't improve the ghastly crap that is shown on them.
Ok - nice sarcasm.
Here:
cbs news
or better yet, here:
google/ibm
and for Ford:
ford/anti-semite
was shpping mainframes to Germany to track Jews during WWII, and Ford was a raving anti-semite.
Neither seems to have had any impression on the company over the long haul, unforutnately.
Eventually I doubt there will even be an install of office, but instead an office "server" comprised of services between sql server, sharepoint, exchange, drm, and other services.
Just a thought.
I was just wondering... based on the logic being presented by the plaintiffs, would AT&T be held responsible in court if I played my MP3s to friends over the phone while they listened in a giant conference call?
No no no no!
It's blather, rinse, repeat.
The last thing you want is blather left in your hair too long.
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Yes, appropriately they have named it, "LEGEND".
No joke.