Quite agree - anything that gives David Icke's ideas the oxygen of publicity and gives us all a chance to write really funny stuff in Wikipedia without worrying about the purity of the original concept is a great idea. This sounds like a great soluton.;)
How depressing - it's started already. What other manufacturers have you considered?
Apple laptops are supposed to be great but essential Windows apps. are lacking; Sony are good looking but heavy and of doubtful build quality; HP are pretty bad.
... because it heralds the first noticeable change in the Thinkpad line since it was sold. Thinkpads have a reputation the workplace for reliability, performance and build quality; the corporate standard (usually HP) pales in comparison. Unlike the HP line, Thinkpads don't 'squeak' when you lean your hands on them, don't get too hot, don't make loud fan noises, don't crash mysteriously, and don't have their case colour rub off over time. A new titanium casing could be a disaster if it starts to rub off like it does on other makes of laptop because that will turn high-end corporate customers off in droves because it will be taken as emblematic of what will happen to the inside of the IBM laptop.
I know, sounds like a little thing, but the solid case is a mark of quality that Lenovo can't afford to lose.
Books _are_ emotional; that's the whole point! Well maybe what I mean to say is that *some* books are emotional and some are not. Ebooks are great for reference works but to get the true feeling from an emotional book you need a paperback. Don't get me wrong, I'm not bothered about the form of the book, or the paper itself, but just the physicality of the book as a way of adding expression to the text within it.
All you have mentioned about the functionality available in Ebooks may be true; but have you ever tried to markup in an Ebook? It's a hell of a lot harder than on paper. Have you ever had the need to carry a small library of books with you? That's what the internet is for! Paperbooks may need more energy to transport but their environmental impact is way less than constructing and powering a PDA.
Wierd thing is, I kinda agree with all your points and have even implemented totally electronic document management and review systems in the past. Thing is, they just don't make sense for all purposes. Sad but true...
So young and so little time;) Wait a couple of years and you'll start to appreciate paper books again. The better the book, the more you'll want it on paper; the significance of Catcher In the Rye, the knowledge in Dive into Python, the absurd joy of Spike Milligan - each mean more when they're in a book. Oh, and paper books are just way more functional than computerised tomes - here are just some of the features: multiple bookmarking (pencial marks, folded page corners, fingers); fast forward/reverse (turning pages); portability (way cheaper than a PDA or laptop and often a lot lighter - especially if you tear big books in half); easy markup (with the afore mentioned pencil). Books are even multi-functional (can be used to prop-up shelves, collections of Cds etc.), low energy (just need a reading light - or the sun) and not subject to DRM. Seriously, it makes no sense to spend a couple of hundered pounds/dollars on a computer just so you can read a 10 pound/dollar book. It really doesn't. Also, books help me to chat up young ladies; PDAs and laptops NEVER NEVER NEVER do.
On such a wonderfully pointless book by Sean Hughes that helpfully includes instructions on How to Steal this Book, and, if you're caught, a helpfully underlined defence ("I was only following what it said in the book...")
Anyway, here's the quote:
"There's more to life than books you know, but not much more." - Morrissey
... 'cause no one in their right mind would sit down to read several hundered pages of a book on the internet; they'd get a paper copy (just like I do) - it's less troublesome to eyes and can be used in bed/on the train/at a bus stop, with no chance of being mugged for a choice electronic gadget (though I was once menaced by a chap who didn't like that I was reading On The Road).
Maybe Tony should really be worried about the Bookmobile (http://www.archive.org/texts/bookmobile.php) which makes the information free and just charges for the printing - a true purification of the business model.
Basically, a parasite in cats passes to humans and a research study revealed that...
"...women infected with toxoplasma spent more money on clothes and were consistently rated as more attractive. "We found they were more easy-going, more warm-hearted, had more friends and cared more about how they looked," he said. "However, they were also less trustworthy and had more relationships with men."
"By contrast, the infected men appeared to suffer from the "alley cat" effect: becoming less well groomed undesirable loners who were more willing to fight. They were more likely to be suspicious and jealous. "They tended to dislike following rules," Flegr said."
Here's the first link I could find that refers to the story I first read in the UK Times a while back (the link to the Times in the blog is broken but the best bit of the Times story was some suggestion that this parasite might explain the behaviour of the cat-loving French): http://althouse.blogspot.com/2005/06/have-cats-aff ected-your-brain-yet.html
and another to the Guardian (UK) on a similar vein: http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/thisweek/story/0,12 977,1048642,00.html
CATS MUST BE STOPPED!
... a desperate president thoughtfully strums a guitar while the deep south burns (because movie presidents are either heroes or bill clinton and the deep south is evil); a valient mayor battles the dodgy paper-shuffling governor (because politics stinks, apart from mayors who always clean up towns - kinda like sheriffs)... and bruce willis as the heroic maveric loner ex-cop who accidently shot his partner/ex-SEAL who accidently led his men to certain death/ex-navy cook who accidently poisoned his captain/ex-JAG officer with a fighter pilot past who accidently shot-down a Serbian general's evil-eyed son. Can bruce save his cute daughter/sexy but unloving wife/cute but dangerously curious son from the floods, terribly black & poor rioters, rape gangs and insane local army unit commander; lead a rag-tag gang of possibly feckless neighbours to safety AND discover the truth behind the hurricaine (a military experiment gone wrong), the sharks (a military experiment gone wrong) and the burst levys (a corporate / military engineers experiment gone wrong)?
Or maybe this was just a huge disaster affecting an area the size of the UK, in a country without a welfare state, where the inequalities in society are trumpeted in the media, and commercial interests (i.e. a waterway near New Orleans that should have been filled in years ago) are always put above the common good (DCMA, Patent Law, etc.)
WAKE UP AMERICA AND SAVE YOUR COUNTRY; MAKE TONY BLAIR YOUR NEXT PRESIDENT
Check out the eff site to lobby your senator against something more important than the case in this story (http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy?id=113). Boy, if all the/.'ers in the US did this it might actually make an impact...
As the HEAD librarian the person concerned does have responsiblity to implement library policy. If they didn't do it they they should be for the chop; if they are under investigation then the authorities owe it to possible witnesses amongst the library staff to keep the head librarian off work until the investigation is complete; once they are proved innocent (here's hoping) then they can come back to work. heads of organisations have a lot of power and with that comes responsibility and the risk of suspension if things go wrong.
Please write to your representative encouraging more of this so we get more work. Examples: - Extend every fouth weekend to three days and abolish public holidays instead. - Change private sector work hours from 9-5 to 10-6; change public sector hours from 9-5 to 8-4 (so workers in each sector can use the services of he other without taking time off) - Rename every 10th day to 'Happy Day' and require that all correspondence sent on that day include a Ren and Stimpy logo - Sack all political representatives, replacing them with a HUGE I.T. system that implements e-voting on every issue (think of the computer work this will require!) And finally, the most ridiculous of all: - Introduce a national ID card scheme Hooray! Think of the lovely money! Write it all in Python!
This was NOT an interview, this was a poor quality press release / moan piece. Once again I have to repeat that this was low on detail and provided no information on what her department does - or even any reasonable discussion about her points. Knowing where high level execs is useful, but her poorly expressed opinions cannot represent what anyone would call a sound example of corporate policy or SOPs regarding patch releases.
It wasn't ballsy, it was just balls.
I'm sure you do a good job posting articles to/. but if you are going to continue to post such poor quality articles to/. then I am very sad (but hey - why change when it's all going so well...)
Cool - I don't disagree with what you say, but I do disagree with such a crappy article by the Oracle CSO. She doesn't make a serious attempt to address any of the points you mentioned or talk about what her department does.
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Quite agree - anything that gives David Icke's ideas the oxygen of publicity and gives us all a chance to write really funny stuff in Wikipedia without worrying about the purity of the original concept is a great idea. This sounds like a great soluton. ;)
Congrats on the funniest comment I've read on /. for months!
On my god! Sanity check ...
I can't wait until that comes on-line; I'm booking my trip to the Arctic right now...
... my life is complete!
You know I had the same problem with mine - RTB service replaced the display unit and now it works fine but it's still a concern.
On the contrary, it is very revolutionary;)
How depressing - it's started already. What other manufacturers have you considered?
Apple laptops are supposed to be great but essential Windows apps. are lacking; Sony are good looking but heavy and of doubtful build quality; HP are pretty bad.
... because it heralds the first noticeable change in the Thinkpad line since it was sold. Thinkpads have a reputation the workplace for reliability, performance and build quality; the corporate standard (usually HP) pales in comparison. Unlike the HP line, Thinkpads don't 'squeak' when you lean your hands on them, don't get too hot, don't make loud fan noises, don't crash mysteriously, and don't have their case colour rub off over time. A new titanium casing could be a disaster if it starts to rub off like it does on other makes of laptop because that will turn high-end corporate customers off in droves because it will be taken as emblematic of what will happen to the inside of the IBM laptop.
;)
I know, sounds like a little thing, but the solid case is a mark of quality that Lenovo can't afford to lose.
PS I love my Thinkpad
Books _are_ emotional; that's the whole point! Well maybe what I mean to say is that *some* books are emotional and some are not. Ebooks are great for reference works but to get the true feeling from an emotional book you need a paperback. Don't get me wrong, I'm not bothered about the form of the book, or the paper itself, but just the physicality of the book as a way of adding expression to the text within it.
All you have mentioned about the functionality available in Ebooks may be true; but have you ever tried to markup in an Ebook? It's a hell of a lot harder than on paper. Have you ever had the need to carry a small library of books with you? That's what the internet is for! Paperbooks may need more energy to transport but their environmental impact is way less than constructing and powering a PDA.
Wierd thing is, I kinda agree with all your points and have even implemented totally electronic document management and review systems in the past. Thing is, they just don't make sense for all purposes. Sad but true...
So young and so little time ;) Wait a couple of years and you'll start to appreciate paper books again. The better the book, the more you'll want it on paper; the significance of Catcher In the Rye, the knowledge in Dive into Python, the absurd joy of Spike Milligan - each mean more when they're in a book. Oh, and paper books are just way more functional than computerised tomes - here are just some of the features: multiple bookmarking (pencial marks, folded page corners, fingers); fast forward/reverse (turning pages); portability (way cheaper than a PDA or laptop and often a lot lighter - especially if you tear big books in half); easy markup (with the afore mentioned pencil). Books are even multi-functional (can be used to prop-up shelves, collections of Cds etc.), low energy (just need a reading light - or the sun) and not subject to DRM. Seriously, it makes no sense to spend a couple of hundered pounds/dollars on a computer just so you can read a 10 pound/dollar book. It really doesn't. Also, books help me to chat up young ladies; PDAs and laptops NEVER NEVER NEVER do.
Anyway, here's the quote:
"There's more to life than books you know, but not much more." - Morrissey
Maybe Tony should really be worried about the Bookmobile (http://www.archive.org/texts/bookmobile.php) which makes the information free and just charges for the printing - a true purification of the business model.
Anyway, how is this different from the million books project over at http://www.archive.org/details/millionbooks ?
... this was really a picture of the crucial, plot revealing scene from a horrific crime; just like in that film No Way Out (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093640/ - includes scenes of nudity, navy personnel in white uniforms, and communists). ... such as Steve Balmer murdering (or f***ing) Eric Schmidt with a chair (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/03/0 515250&tid=109&tid=217&tid=133&tid=123), Google murdering unindexed information (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/03/00242 30&tid=217&tid=133, or SCO giving the OSS community a shafting thanks to mySQL (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/04/17302 25&tid=187&tid=126), or maybe it's just a picture of New Orleans ...
A few candidate crimes come to mind
"So, as Green Days Time of Your life is playing on the company intercom system. "
Basically, a parasite in cats passes to humans and a research study revealed that...f ected-your-brain-yet.html
2 977,1048642,00.html
"...women infected with toxoplasma spent more money on clothes and were consistently rated as more attractive. "We found they were more easy-going, more warm-hearted, had more friends and cared more about how they looked," he said. "However, they were also less trustworthy and had more relationships with men." "By contrast, the infected men appeared to suffer from the "alley cat" effect: becoming less well groomed undesirable loners who were more willing to fight. They were more likely to be suspicious and jealous. "They tended to dislike following rules," Flegr said."
Here's the first link I could find that refers to the story I first read in the UK Times a while back (the link to the Times in the blog is broken but the best bit of the Times story was some suggestion that this parasite might explain the behaviour of the cat-loving French): http://althouse.blogspot.com/2005/06/have-cats-af
and another to the Guardian (UK) on a similar vein: http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/thisweek/story/0,1
CATS MUST BE STOPPED!
... about bruce willis; Bruce Campbell would be my choice (or Sarah MG)
... a desperate president thoughtfully strums a guitar while the deep south burns (because movie presidents are either heroes or bill clinton and the deep south is evil); a valient mayor battles the dodgy paper-shuffling governor (because politics stinks, apart from mayors who always clean up towns - kinda like sheriffs) ... and bruce willis as the heroic maveric loner ex-cop who accidently shot his partner/ex-SEAL who accidently led his men to certain death/ex-navy cook who accidently poisoned his captain/ex-JAG officer with a fighter pilot past who accidently shot-down a Serbian general's evil-eyed son. Can bruce save his cute daughter/sexy but unloving wife/cute but dangerously curious son from the floods, terribly black & poor rioters, rape gangs and insane local army unit commander; lead a rag-tag gang of possibly feckless neighbours to safety AND discover the truth behind the hurricaine (a military experiment gone wrong), the sharks (a military experiment gone wrong) and the burst levys (a corporate / military engineers experiment gone wrong)?
Or maybe this was just a huge disaster affecting an area the size of the UK, in a country without a welfare state, where the inequalities in society are trumpeted in the media, and commercial interests (i.e. a waterway near New Orleans that should have been filled in years ago) are always put above the common good (DCMA, Patent Law, etc.)
WAKE UP AMERICA AND SAVE YOUR COUNTRY; MAKE TONY BLAIR YOUR NEXT PRESIDENT
Check out the eff site to lobby your senator against something more important than the case in this story (http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy?id=113). Boy, if all the /.'ers in the US did this it might actually make an impact...
As the HEAD librarian the person concerned does have responsiblity to implement library policy. If they didn't do it they they should be for the chop; if they are under investigation then the authorities owe it to possible witnesses amongst the library staff to keep the head librarian off work until the investigation is complete; once they are proved innocent (here's hoping) then they can come back to work. heads of organisations have a lot of power and with that comes responsibility and the risk of suspension if things go wrong.
Don't post c**p articles.
Please write to your representative encouraging more of this so we get more work. Examples:
- Extend every fouth weekend to three days and abolish public holidays instead.
- Change private sector work hours from 9-5 to 10-6; change public sector hours from 9-5 to 8-4 (so workers in each sector can use the services of he other without taking time off)
- Rename every 10th day to 'Happy Day' and require that all correspondence sent on that day include a Ren and Stimpy logo
- Sack all political representatives, replacing them with a HUGE I.T. system that implements e-voting on every issue (think of the computer work this will require!)
And finally, the most ridiculous of all:
- Introduce a national ID card scheme
Hooray! Think of the lovely money! Write it all in Python!
Good one ;)
I think they should also have:
- PUI (Posting while Under the Influence)
- CABIALB (Crappy Article but I'm a lazy b*****d)
This was NOT an interview, this was a poor quality press release / moan piece. Once again I have to repeat that this was low on detail and provided no information on what her department does - or even any reasonable discussion about her points.
/. but if you are going to continue to post such poor quality articles to /. then I am very sad (but hey - why change when it's all going so well...)
Knowing where high level execs is useful, but her poorly expressed opinions cannot represent what anyone would call a sound example of corporate policy or SOPs regarding patch releases.
It wasn't ballsy, it was just balls.
I'm sure you do a good job posting articles to
Cool - I don't disagree with what you say, but I do disagree with such a crappy article by the Oracle CSO. She doesn't make a serious attempt to address any of the points you mentioned or talk about what her department does.