Wouldn't this toy be useful if, say, you were on vacation and wanted to take lots of shots without buying expensive memory upgrades? If it has a modem built-in, you could dial-up your ISP (uh, from your hotel...) every night and email yourself all of the day's pictures. I realize that the pricetag of this makes it ridiculous to buy this camera instead of a regular digital camera with extra memory, but its a neat idea I think. And it will get cheaper with time.
"Welcome to Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts."....Governor George W. Bush, Jr.
Big companies do this kind of shit, because they have the power.
Whether or not you agree with Microsoft, the city signed a contract with them agreeing to pay x amount of money to use their software. They didn't live up to their end of the bargain.
Now I'm all for free software, but there is some software that isn't free, as much as we'd like it to be. I'm referring to say, engineering software. Would I even want to use free software at my company? As an engineer, you are responsible for the product you turn out - you can't just say "Well sorry guys, there was a bug in the software I used". You need some accountability. Is this possible with free software? And therefore shouldn't companies that make this big expensive software have a right to demand that it is paid for - theoretically to maintain high standards? This is not to say that trial and student versions shouldn't be available, but companies that can pay for it should.
"We're going to have the best educated American people in the world." Governor George W. Bush, Jr., 9/21/97
There is WAY too much information on the web about me already, I'm quite sure. Everything you do, you have to 'register' for. It kills me.
While I understand some sites have to do this (obviously if you're going to buy something online they need to know where to ship it, duh) the New York Times does not need to know where I live! And while I sometimes do fill in incorrect information, sometime I don't. I'd say its pretty easy to create an accurate profile of me online. I installed IDcide here at work, and its interesting to see just how many sites may use tracking networks.
"God dosen't play dice." "Einstein, stop telling God what to do!"
I'm currently getting my Electrical Engineering degree, and while it does take a lot of work, I think its totally worth it. Right now I'm doing co-op, and everyone I work with in R&D is an Electrical Engineer. There's so much theory that you have to learn to be able to understand what's going on. Every day I learn new stuff that will be taught to me in an upper year course. I agree you might not need a degree to do testing, but for design I don't see how you can't have one. Of course I do see that if you have tons of experience you'd be amply qualified for many jobs, but I'd hope most people still strive to understand what's really going on, not just apply the formulas.
I also think the lack of EEs is going to change within five years - I know my school is just one of many that doubled the number of CompE and EE frosh. The extra Rec students must come from the fact that more people are going to university overall.
We use Rogers@home and its down, oh I'd say 25% of the time. While it might not be essential, its a huge pain in the ass. There are ways of getting around it - I can telephone bank instead of internet bank - but that's not what we pay ~$40/month for.
My emails might not be essential, but business emails sometimes can be. I've heard of Rogers giving refunds for downtime (the network's been down all weekend more than once) but we haven't seen it yet. When we call and complain they tell us that they're doing maintenance. Sounds like their network is not nearly as robust as it should be if 'maintenance' causes us to lose service so often!
But let's all face it - where would we be if we all still had to dial-up? The waiting drives me insane - and I know I'm not the only one.
Do we really want a big tub of space fungus in the ocean?
Does no one else see anything wrong with this? Picture it -
SPACE FUNGUS THAT TAKES OVER THE WORLD!!!!
At least it could cause a sweeping plague...
I also bank exclusively online and I've had no problems. I am morally opposed to paying banking service fees ($25 in one month - no thank you!) so I switched! My new bank has no brick-and-mortar buildings - any time I have problems or unusual requests I call the telephone banking line and they help me. I know this sounds like a commercial, but its really much easier. I always use 128-bit encryption, and this eases my mind. I am eternally grateful I live in Canada where you can debit coast to coast without any headaches, and our banks (even my cheesy online bank) are super stable.
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Wouldn't this toy be useful if, say, you were on vacation and wanted to take lots of shots without buying expensive memory upgrades? If it has a modem built-in, you could dial-up your ISP (uh, from your hotel...) every night and email yourself all of the day's pictures. I realize that the pricetag of this makes it ridiculous to buy this camera instead of a regular digital camera with extra memory, but its a neat idea I think. And it will get cheaper with time.
"Welcome to Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts."
Big companies do this kind of shit, because they have the power.
Whether or not you agree with Microsoft, the city signed a contract with them agreeing to pay x amount of money to use their software. They didn't live up to their end of the bargain.
Now I'm all for free software, but there is some software that isn't free, as much as we'd like it to be. I'm referring to say, engineering software. Would I even want to use free software at my company? As an engineer, you are responsible for the product you turn out - you can't just say "Well sorry guys, there was a bug in the software I used". You need some accountability. Is this possible with free software? And therefore shouldn't companies that make this big expensive software have a right to demand that it is paid for - theoretically to maintain high standards? This is not to say that trial and student versions shouldn't be available, but companies that can pay for it should.
"We're going to have the best educated American people in the world."
Governor George W. Bush, Jr., 9/21/97
There is WAY too much information on the web about me already, I'm quite sure. Everything you do, you have to 'register' for. It kills me.
While I understand some sites have to do this (obviously if you're going to buy something online they need to know where to ship it, duh) the New York Times does not need to know where I live! And while I sometimes do fill in incorrect information, sometime I don't. I'd say its pretty easy to create an accurate profile of me online. I installed IDcide here at work, and its interesting to see just how many sites may use tracking networks.
"God dosen't play dice."
"Einstein, stop telling God what to do!"
I'm currently getting my Electrical Engineering degree, and while it does take a lot of work, I think its totally worth it. Right now I'm doing co-op, and everyone I work with in R&D is an Electrical Engineer. There's so much theory that you have to learn to be able to understand what's going on. Every day I learn new stuff that will be taught to me in an upper year course. I agree you might not need a degree to do testing, but for design I don't see how you can't have one. Of course I do see that if you have tons of experience you'd be amply qualified for many jobs, but I'd hope most people still strive to understand what's really going on, not just apply the formulas.
I also think the lack of EEs is going to change within five years - I know my school is just one of many that doubled the number of CompE and EE frosh. The extra Rec students must come from the fact that more people are going to university overall.
We use Rogers@home and its down, oh I'd say 25% of the time. While it might not be essential, its a huge pain in the ass. There are ways of getting around it - I can telephone bank instead of internet bank - but that's not what we pay ~$40/month for.
My emails might not be essential, but business emails sometimes can be. I've heard of Rogers giving refunds for downtime (the network's been down all weekend more than once) but we haven't seen it yet. When we call and complain they tell us that they're doing maintenance. Sounds like their network is not nearly as robust as it should be if 'maintenance' causes us to lose service so often!
But let's all face it - where would we be if we all still had to dial-up? The waiting drives me insane - and I know I'm not the only one.
Do we really want a big tub of space fungus in the ocean? Does no one else see anything wrong with this? Picture it - SPACE FUNGUS THAT TAKES OVER THE WORLD!!!! At least it could cause a sweeping plague...
I also bank exclusively online and I've had no problems. I am morally opposed to paying banking service fees ($25 in one month - no thank you!) so I switched! My new bank has no brick-and-mortar buildings - any time I have problems or unusual requests I call the telephone banking line and they help me. I know this sounds like a commercial, but its really much easier. I always use 128-bit encryption, and this eases my mind. I am eternally grateful I live in Canada where you can debit coast to coast without any headaches, and our banks (even my cheesy online bank) are super stable.