I have been carrying around Wikipedia on my PDA for years. TomeRaider has a "complete" version of Wikipedia, with some pictures, for about 1GB. And it is very good for settling bar bets.
I think is part of the point. Either it is going to annoy you so much you won't use the system or you will get used to it and not realize it is on. I don't really see how it is going to make you pay attention.
I don't think it is so clear it is fair use. Would it be fair use to photocopy headlines and first 3 lines from all the major papers and sell that as "my" paper? And the argument that the news companies can just opt out is not true since Google is now the de facto search monopoly. If a company wants to have an internet presence it has to be searchable by Google, that does not turn over the copyright to Google.
I think making the medicine patentable will actually make them more widespread. Who is going to pay the millions of dollars to get a drug approved in the US, let alone the millions to market it, without the possibility of a profit.
Making it impossible to make money off the medicine will prevent the drugs from ever being scientificly tested and they will remain unused.
"People avoid change"- I guess that is why this site runs a 45 year old OS.
I don't really care if people avoid change. I want to be the most productive I can be, and I want to help my clients be the most productive they can be. Becoming more productive means changing. Sometimes the changes mean sacraficing backwards compatability. I am always amazed how people on this site seem to want to be cutting-edge and state-of-the-art but when the choice comes between new-and-improved, like AMD 64-bit x86 vs Intel Itanium, or new OSes vs 45 year old *nix, there are always complaints about the new architecture being too different.
Wikipedia should be the aggregator of all knowledge. Who wants to go to a bunch of different sites? Wikipedia already has the infrastructure and mass of other articles to link to.
Taking a closer look I still don't see how you can call Amazon successful. They make less than a one percent profit on their revenue. Barnes and Noble sells slightly more books and makes 3 times as much profit as Amazon.
I am a huge Tivo fanatic and have made quite a few converts but I am afraid there are slipping to the darkside with their oppressive DRM and half-baked TivoToGo. This may push me all they way to MediaCenter.
Not a coincidence that it is also the year of Windows 95. While Win95 has been dwarfed by today's stability and functionality it is the way the vast majority of users first accessed the internet and I don't think Yahoo or Apache or the eventual Google would be around without it.
I have been waiting for Young Lady's Illustrated Primer type game for years. Seems like games could be slightly skewed to teach better patience or thoughtfulness or agressiveness at different times.
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I have been carrying around Wikipedia on my PDA for years. TomeRaider has a "complete" version of Wikipedia, with some pictures, for about 1GB.
And it is very good for settling bar bets.
It will be a while before they get their $25 / 4 megabit wholesale price to anywhere close to reasonable.0 4801944-v71_ITCad7JIwzqJZ_nfN_pacDg_20060809.html? mod=tff_main_tff_top
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB1152491713
I stopped giving his articles any credit after reading a 2 page review of all the watches he has ever owned.
"Indicator of the market"?
.5% and the DJIA went up 9% and 2%.
Google went up 550% in 15 months and then down 28% in the next 3 months.
During these times the S&P went up 18% and
I think Google is way to volatile to add to any market average.
How sad is it that I was thrilled they included a link to a picture of it?
I think is part of the point. Either it is going to annoy you so much you won't use the system or you will get used to it and not realize it is on. I don't really see how it is going to make you pay attention.
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Cisco= $114 billion- http://money.cnn.com/quote/snapshot/snapshot.html
Nintendo= $18.5 billion- http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?s
I don't think Nintendo is going to buy Cisco.
I don't think it is so clear it is fair use.
Would it be fair use to photocopy headlines and first 3 lines from all the major papers and sell that as "my" paper?
And the argument that the news companies can just opt out is not true since Google is now the de facto search monopoly. If a company wants to have an internet presence it has to be searchable by Google, that does not turn over the copyright to Google.
...has already reached a point where it will be possible...
I don't understand what this means. Are they doing it now? Haven't we reached a point with everything that it will eventually be possible?
And the biggest advertising company of them all... Google.
I think the fact that it works through a firewall is a drawback, at least from the IT perspective. Corporate IT departments hate Skype's security holes http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1891306,00.as p and companies are going to block ithttp://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1877000,00. asp.
Don't mean to be crass but the life expectancy in India is like 60. Maybe India should spend more time studying western medicine.
I think making the medicine patentable will actually make them more widespread. Who is going to pay the millions of dollars to get a drug approved in the US, let alone the millions to market it, without the possibility of a profit.
Making it impossible to make money off the medicine will prevent the drugs from ever being scientificly tested and they will remain unused.
And CD players play CDs and DVD players play DVDs. I thought the point of a media center was to have one interface for all media.
"Front Row doesn't display live TV"
That is pretty limited functionality. So, why would you hook this up to your TV?
"People avoid change"- I guess that is why this site runs a 45 year old OS.
I don't really care if people avoid change. I want to be the most productive I can be, and I want to help my clients be the most productive they can be.
Becoming more productive means changing. Sometimes the changes mean sacraficing backwards compatability.
I am always amazed how people on this site seem to want to be cutting-edge and state-of-the-art but when the choice comes between new-and-improved, like AMD 64-bit x86 vs Intel Itanium, or new OSes vs 45 year old *nix, there are always complaints about the new architecture being too different.
Do you want progress?
But they never bother spending the $10 to register gmail.com?
Wikipedia should be the aggregator of all knowledge. Who wants to go to a bunch of different sites? Wikipedia already has the infrastructure and mass of other articles to link to.
Can I someday read an article about hard drives that doesn't start with "I remember when hard drives were ..."?
Sounds cool. Have any pics of this?
Taking a closer look I still don't see how you can call Amazon successful. They make less than a one percent profit on their revenue. Barnes and Noble sells slightly more books and makes 3 times as much profit as Amazon.
I am a huge Tivo fanatic and have made quite a few converts but I am afraid there are slipping to the darkside with their oppressive DRM and half-baked TivoToGo.
This may push me all they way to MediaCenter.
Not a coincidence that it is also the year of Windows 95. While Win95 has been dwarfed by today's stability and functionality it is the way the vast majority of users first accessed the internet and I don't think Yahoo or Apache or the eventual Google would be around without it.
I have been waiting for Young Lady's Illustrated Primer type game for years. Seems like games could be slightly skewed to teach better patience or thoughtfulness or agressiveness at different times.
Vonage says you need 90kbps of bandwidth for each extra line you want.