The internet is a highway. You put the info the dump truck and you drive it along the highway. If a road is out, you take another section of the Interstate. If it's backed up, take a different section of road.
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That's why I propose that you turn kids into personal secretaries.
There is no need to exclude them from your daily lives when you can include them. They can read you e-mail's, send off reports and respond to instant messages when you drive or while you navigate the office, elevators and more. Take them out of school and take them to work. They will learn your trade and the world while keeping the family bond strong and reinforcing the importance of education. You see, you'll teach them to read much faster when you are driving 60 miles an hour and you need to know the time of your next appointment and what direction you should really be going on the highway.
Maybe employing our own children is the answer to allowing more flex time and true telecommuting.
What about the situations where you need to store the item in the provided clamshell?
In my case I had bought a 10 pack of compact fluorescent light bulbs and only used 5 or 6 right away. Since there isn't a way to store them, like an egg container for light bulbs, I had to keep them in the clamshell. Well, since you can't cut right through it, only at the edges, I had to wedge my hand in each time to get to them.
No problem until I was down to the last 3. They were in the bottom of my clamshell envelope, if you will, so I dug in. Oddly, the super reinforced edges broke and instead of the shell being connected on three sides it was now connected on just one, the bottom. Of course, the three bulbs just fell out.
Mind you, this happened in the matter of seconds. I found myself staring at my feet (which are usually protected with shoes) surrounded by microscopic shards of glass. A few pieces were the size of a human hair. I'm still convinced I may have a piece of CFL glass lodged in my bloodstream somewhere.
They are called context clues. "SQL Server" is used above as a proper noun, look at the usage: "than SQL Server".
It's not "than an SQL server", not "than other SQL Servers", just "than SQL Server".
If you don't know that they are talking about Microsoft's product, then you are not in the DB business, and the story wasn't intended for you. (Not to say you can't read it, in fact if you RTFA you will learn that SQL Server is a PROPER NOUN).
The subsequent users of said code now can easily point to the person who put it in. At least it's documented. The best part is, anyone can take the code out. Even if they took you to court, you simply argue that you have already removed the code. (Shows that you mean to comply with the court's actions)
Do you really think Microsoft reps are going to promote another company's products let alone a Linux product?
Sure. But then again, you've got o know sales and your customers. When a salesmen knows that Linux (just the idea/word) turns his customers on then he likes the idea that he can always fall back on that. It's about increasing sales and revenue, not power.
I don't want to become a programmer just to use my computer. (90% of office workers speaking, I.T. specific roles excluded)
Did anyone ever think that I don't want to become a programmer just to run my network?
Why is it assumed that these two talents naturally just go hand-in-hand? I can write some code, mostly scripts, SQL queries and so forth, but know not one thing about C or C++. What I can do is develop an enterprise sized network, with hardware and software requirements competing for my $5,000,000 budget.
I can't write even a simple perl script.
Why must it be assumed that IT guys can code. Not all of us can, and a lot of us don't want to (if I did, I'd be working on the Linux Kernel or any other F/OSS project that interests me).
Besides, only Gore understands the Internets are a series of highways. Not tubes, buy highways. You put your information on the dump truck where it is carried to its destination.
I think "word processing" is a bit advanced for people who have never used PC's before. A simple text editor would be a revolution, people are still going to type (and somehow typing turns into economic upturn). After people have exhausted their use of the plain text editor (I like "Joe" for linux) and have move the society forward, they can get computers that support OpenOffice.
Besides, lightweight applications already exist. Even better, they are stable. Resurrect them!
I was worried that this was just a tease. I'd like to see it for $250, I might even get it to keep the 360 company for that price. Not much to throw at a device that promises so much - however I've just built a PC for about 800 USD that has most of those features except the sweet control wand. You know, I do have one of those Gyro mice; anyone wanna write me a WoW addon? Mouse gestures end up being similar.
WGA has caused a machine of mine to reboot almost daily. I don't know exactly why, but every time it does there is a wga error log in the temp directory (with entries up to the time it rebooted). I've googled it and tried to find the exact cause, but none of the other solutions worked and no one else seems to have the same exact problem. I just get random reboots.
The worst part is that I didn't even download WGA, it did it all by itself. I didn't have automatic updates on, but then one day it was on. The next day I had WGA installed, and the day after it started blue screening and rebooting. The odd thing is that now it is only rebooting once a week (ON MY PVR!!!) and now I can't send the error reports to Microsoft (Windows doesn't even noticed it crashed? Before it was at least logged, the memory was dumped and later could be sent off for analysis).
This machine though is 100% legit. I've even paid for mpeg-2 decoding software, which I refused to pay for on other machines. For a while I thought it was bad hardware or drivers, now I know it's a feature! Basically, $800+ building a sweet PVR/HD gaming PC and it's unstable because of WGA. Usually I'm a Windows supporter (to a point). When you work it right you don't get a lot of problems. This eMachines I'm typing on has had Windows XP installed since the factory, March 2004. I've never had to re-install, or even fight it back into Windows (which is why I call shenanigans on Linux sysadmins who need to reinstall XP every six months. Hey bud, you aren't doing something right).
I'm a fan of Windows - not Microsoft. WGA should die, but we all know this. I'm done ranting. Thank you.
Were you totally offended and disgusted because they showed you stuff that you were just looking to buy (hypothetically) a few minutes ago?
I don't get it... we all love computers and the Internet until they do something useful? I understand the scare, but it isn't there. The scary part would be if Amazon just sent you a bluetooth device and charged you for it. "We knew you'd be wanting this!"
I just wish they would sell these technologies to porn marketeers. I know someone, somewhere already has a database of the things I like. Start making recommendations on things I've not seen or heard of yet!
I just had this great idea; if I turn off my home phone service I won't get any telemarketing calls. If I get rid of the television I don't have to watch commercials. If I don't drive, I won't have to look at billboards.
Only pedophiles get animated gifs in their e-mail anyways...
Xbox 360! It's got USB, you can add wifi and it basically has the music store built in (Live Marketplace). And really no PC is needed.
Of course PC users have Windows Media Player, RealPlayer and other services to choose from. The difference is that Microsoft's option, oddly enough, offers more options when it comes to music stores. You can use Napster, Rhapsody, Surge, Wal-Mart's music store and others.
I don't own an iPod, so I'd be more likely to buy a "Zune" because I'm not going to be limited to iTunes only. (And I'm no MS fanboi, but what works, works.) Sadly, Zune will offer more options.
Some aging media king, like Sony, ought to buy them and lose lots of money on them, like TW did with AOL.
Usually though the opposite happens. Companies don't lose money on these deal, they usually gain a lot. A company comes around and buys up ****.com, and as they run it into the ground they make a fortune. They don't usually spend millions (or as estimated with YouTube, billions) of dollars to lose it in a gamble. The first thing a buyer, like Sony, would do is use their existing might to trick out their new baby. Exclusive contracts, tie-ins, or in this case ads and spam. If they've got a winner they will go in it for the long haul, but if they decide it isn't worth it then the companies mission statement finally dies and the fat cats laugh to the bank.
Put it this way: a movie could be made, that no one actually saw, and the filmmaker can still make money though promotions or merchandise. If I bought youtube, I could score
I must admit I don't know much on the subject, but here is my two cents.
I wrote a paper that was a bs assignment to keep us busy on the differences between LCD, Plasma and CRT displays. After researching all three I found that when choosing between an LCD and a CRT, you are deciding based on the application. They both have pros and cons, and none of three, of course, are perfect. Plasma did win out on a few aspects, but I drew a personal conclusion that a plasma wasn't right for me.
At the time I was thinking about buying a TV, but not that serious. Since I decided that plasma was too pricey for the setbacks and LCD wasn't mature enough at the time. Projection seemed the only way to go. I was talked out of a real projector by my spouse (small room, I didn't care he he) and DLP still had problems. Now I own a rear projected CRT that has amazed people who have seen plasma and LCD and other DLP setups.
In the end, it's the application and the true specs of the display. A huge plasma with poor contrast is crap. An LCD that chokes on sports is no good. Resolution, contrast ratio, not the technology. CRT is great, LCD is great, plasma is okay. But you like buying expensive things for no reason.
I can see this as a neat black-box turn-key solution for someone who can't deal with that level of complexity but can deal with a straight-forward UI.
Almost makes sense, since we are talking torrents here. There are home entertainment systems that now take USB drives, so there you could potentially just use the router to load content from the net for your device. Samsung has a home theater in a box, for example, that has the ability to play most mp3's, wma's, wmv's, avi/xvid/dvix/mpeg-4, mpeg-1&2, and pictures. More importantly, this is already a digital/Internet TV device waiting to happen. It can download and store content and it can also deliver it via the network to other thin clients.
Small network boxes should scare all of the old content providers (not the owners, mind you). Why should I pay Time Warner 100 smackers a month for mindless entertainment when I can have this and pay an Internet provider a lot less because we are sharing the bandwidth (via torrents). iTunes should be preparing something similar, or a service that works with this (or a firewire version); their version for people without computers, maybe even on dialup.
I hate to say it, but all you need is a video out. A simple output for the interface. That is easy enough when you specailize it. It's the set top all over again. But the idea of smaller devices is good. Maybe this is the device that caches internet feeds for your set top, transfered to it by ethernet. Now I see it works with iTunes? Newegg tells me this, it says "iTune"
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The internet is a highway. You put the info the dump truck and you drive it along the highway. If a road is out, you take another section of the Interstate. If it's backed up, take a different section of road.
It's almost a super highway.
Ahh... VT... keeps you warm in the winter!
And what about percentages for monetary amounts? They always come out that clean? Sweet!
(Of course, most RDBMS keep 6 decimal places for currency regardless of what the user is asking for or inputting, IIRC)
You would have $874,000 in precious metals!
That's why I propose that you turn kids into personal secretaries.
There is no need to exclude them from your daily lives when you can include them. They can read you e-mail's, send off reports and respond to instant messages when you drive or while you navigate the office, elevators and more. Take them out of school and take them to work. They will learn your trade and the world while keeping the family bond strong and reinforcing the importance of education. You see, you'll teach them to read much faster when you are driving 60 miles an hour and you need to know the time of your next appointment and what direction you should really be going on the highway.
Maybe employing our own children is the answer to allowing more flex time and true telecommuting.
In Soviet Union, Government Remembers YOU!!!
What about the situations where you need to store the item in the provided clamshell?
In my case I had bought a 10 pack of compact fluorescent light bulbs and only used 5 or 6 right away. Since there isn't a way to store them, like an egg container for light bulbs, I had to keep them in the clamshell. Well, since you can't cut right through it, only at the edges, I had to wedge my hand in each time to get to them.
No problem until I was down to the last 3. They were in the bottom of my clamshell envelope, if you will, so I dug in. Oddly, the super reinforced edges broke and instead of the shell being connected on three sides it was now connected on just one, the bottom. Of course, the three bulbs just fell out.
Mind you, this happened in the matter of seconds. I found myself staring at my feet (which are usually protected with shoes) surrounded by microscopic shards of glass. A few pieces were the size of a human hair. I'm still convinced I may have a piece of CFL glass lodged in my bloodstream somewhere.
You can see a similar package here oddly enough:
http://www.myopenx.com/
Since the GP started this, I'll bite.
They are called context clues. "SQL Server" is used above as a proper noun, look at the usage: "than SQL Server".
It's not "than an SQL server", not "than other SQL Servers", just "than SQL Server".
If you don't know that they are talking about Microsoft's product, then you are not in the DB business, and the story wasn't intended for you. (Not to say you can't read it, in fact if you RTFA you will learn that SQL Server is a PROPER NOUN).
It's just Hollerith cards all over again.
Exactly.
The subsequent users of said code now can easily point to the person who put it in. At least it's documented. The best part is, anyone can take the code out. Even if they took you to court, you simply argue that you have already removed the code. (Shows that you mean to comply with the court's actions)
All fud, no action.
Do you really think Microsoft reps are going to promote another company's products let alone a Linux product?
Sure. But then again, you've got o know sales and your customers. When a salesmen knows that Linux (just the idea/word) turns his customers on then he likes the idea that he can always fall back on that. It's about increasing sales and revenue, not power.
I don't want to become a programmer just to use my computer. (90% of office workers speaking, I.T. specific roles excluded)
Did anyone ever think that I don't want to become a programmer just to run my network?
Why is it assumed that these two talents naturally just go hand-in-hand? I can write some code, mostly scripts, SQL queries and so forth, but know not one thing about C or C++. What I can do is develop an enterprise sized network, with hardware and software requirements competing for my $5,000,000 budget.
I can't write even a simple perl script.
Why must it be assumed that IT guys can code. Not all of us can, and a lot of us don't want to (if I did, I'd be working on the Linux Kernel or any other F/OSS project that interests me).
He should get some credit. At least that is what these two "bozos" say.
Besides, only Gore understands the Internets are a series of highways. Not tubes, buy highways. You put your information on the dump truck where it is carried to its destination.
I think "word processing" is a bit advanced for people who have never used PC's before. A simple text editor would be a revolution, people are still going to type (and somehow typing turns into economic upturn). After people have exhausted their use of the plain text editor (I like "Joe" for linux) and have move the society forward, they can get computers that support OpenOffice.
Besides, lightweight applications already exist. Even better, they are stable. Resurrect them!
I was worried that this was just a tease. I'd like to see it for $250, I might even get it to keep the 360 company for that price. Not much to throw at a device that promises so much - however I've just built a PC for about 800 USD that has most of those features except the sweet control wand. You know, I do have one of those Gyro mice; anyone wanna write me a WoW addon? Mouse gestures end up being similar.
me too, i was j/k.
WGA has caused a machine of mine to reboot almost daily. I don't know exactly why, but every time it does there is a wga error log in the temp directory (with entries up to the time it rebooted). I've googled it and tried to find the exact cause, but none of the other solutions worked and no one else seems to have the same exact problem. I just get random reboots.
The worst part is that I didn't even download WGA, it did it all by itself. I didn't have automatic updates on, but then one day it was on. The next day I had WGA installed, and the day after it started blue screening and rebooting. The odd thing is that now it is only rebooting once a week (ON MY PVR!!!) and now I can't send the error reports to Microsoft (Windows doesn't even noticed it crashed? Before it was at least logged, the memory was dumped and later could be sent off for analysis).
This machine though is 100% legit. I've even paid for mpeg-2 decoding software, which I refused to pay for on other machines. For a while I thought it was bad hardware or drivers, now I know it's a feature! Basically, $800+ building a sweet PVR/HD gaming PC and it's unstable because of WGA. Usually I'm a Windows supporter (to a point). When you work it right you don't get a lot of problems. This eMachines I'm typing on has had Windows XP installed since the factory, March 2004. I've never had to re-install, or even fight it back into Windows (which is why I call shenanigans on Linux sysadmins who need to reinstall XP every six months. Hey bud, you aren't doing something right).
I'm a fan of Windows - not Microsoft. WGA should die, but we all know this. I'm done ranting. Thank you.
Were you totally offended and disgusted because they showed you stuff that you were just looking to buy (hypothetically) a few minutes ago?
I don't get it... we all love computers and the Internet until they do something useful? I understand the scare, but it isn't there. The scary part would be if Amazon just sent you a bluetooth device and charged you for it. "We knew you'd be wanting this!"
I just wish they would sell these technologies to porn marketeers. I know someone, somewhere already has a database of the things I like. Start making recommendations on things I've not seen or heard of yet!
I just had this great idea; if I turn off my home phone service I won't get any telemarketing calls. If I get rid of the television I don't have to watch commercials. If I don't drive, I won't have to look at billboards.
Only pedophiles get animated gifs in their e-mail anyways...
Xbox 360! It's got USB, you can add wifi and it basically has the music store built in (Live Marketplace). And really no PC is needed.
Of course PC users have Windows Media Player, RealPlayer and other services to choose from. The difference is that Microsoft's option, oddly enough, offers more options when it comes to music stores. You can use Napster, Rhapsody, Surge, Wal-Mart's music store and others.
I don't own an iPod, so I'd be more likely to buy a "Zune" because I'm not going to be limited to iTunes only. (And I'm no MS fanboi, but what works, works.) Sadly, Zune will offer more options.
Some aging media king, like Sony, ought to buy them and lose lots of money on them, like TW did with AOL.
Usually though the opposite happens. Companies don't lose money on these deal, they usually gain a lot. A company comes around and buys up ****.com, and as they run it into the ground they make a fortune. They don't usually spend millions (or as estimated with YouTube, billions) of dollars to lose it in a gamble. The first thing a buyer, like Sony, would do is use their existing might to trick out their new baby. Exclusive contracts, tie-ins, or in this case ads and spam. If they've got a winner they will go in it for the long haul, but if they decide it isn't worth it then the companies mission statement finally dies and the fat cats laugh to the bank.
Put it this way: a movie could be made, that no one actually saw, and the filmmaker can still make money though promotions or merchandise. If I bought youtube, I could score
I must admit I don't know much on the subject, but here is my two cents.
I wrote a paper that was a bs assignment to keep us busy on the differences between LCD, Plasma and CRT displays. After researching all three I found that when choosing between an LCD and a CRT, you are deciding based on the application. They both have pros and cons, and none of three, of course, are perfect. Plasma did win out on a few aspects, but I drew a personal conclusion that a plasma wasn't right for me.
At the time I was thinking about buying a TV, but not that serious. Since I decided that plasma was too pricey for the setbacks and LCD wasn't mature enough at the time. Projection seemed the only way to go. I was talked out of a real projector by my spouse (small room, I didn't care he he) and DLP still had problems. Now I own a rear projected CRT that has amazed people who have seen plasma and LCD and other DLP setups.
In the end, it's the application and the true specs of the display. A huge plasma with poor contrast is crap. An LCD that chokes on sports is no good. Resolution, contrast ratio, not the technology. CRT is great, LCD is great, plasma is okay. But you like buying expensive things for no reason.
I can see this as a neat black-box turn-key solution for someone who can't deal with that level of complexity but can deal with a straight-forward UI.
Almost makes sense, since we are talking torrents here. There are home entertainment systems that now take USB drives, so there you could potentially just use the router to load content from the net for your device. Samsung has a home theater in a box, for example, that has the ability to play most mp3's, wma's, wmv's, avi/xvid/dvix/mpeg-4, mpeg-1&2, and pictures. More importantly, this is already a digital/Internet TV device waiting to happen. It can download and store content and it can also deliver it via the network to other thin clients.
Small network boxes should scare all of the old content providers (not the owners, mind you). Why should I pay Time Warner 100 smackers a month for mindless entertainment when I can have this and pay an Internet provider a lot less because we are sharing the bandwidth (via torrents). iTunes should be preparing something similar, or a service that works with this (or a firewire version); their version for people without computers, maybe even on dialup.
I hate to say it, but all you need is a video out. A simple output for the interface. That is easy enough when you specailize it. It's the set top all over again. But the idea of smaller devices is good. Maybe this is the device that caches internet feeds for your set top, transfered to it by ethernet. Now I see it works with iTunes? Newegg tells me this, it says "iTune"
Hey! That's Bill Gates' wife you're talking about there.
I was just asking someone about this last night; do you think he married her to get her to stop making programs like Microsoft Bob?
It's a Linmodem!