We have them in a new "green dorm" on campus. That plus dim lights in conference rooms and a fuel cell backup generator. A new 5kW system, nearly 100x more expensive than a gas powered system of similar size...
Browsing and email are the killer app for the internet.
Calendaring solutions / meeting scheduling plus newsgroups are the killer app for business.
Why not have a single application?
Bloat oh no! We can't expect people to download a 15 MB executable! I like having a email notification in my browser. I like having links and copy past handled effectively.
Yeah, the Treo is a bit more. Give them a year or two and they will be much cheaper. I think they are around $500 now, $200 with a contract. If you figure the contract price is near the actual production cost, that is at least close to $100. And I am sure they could change some features to get the price down some more as needed.
They still need to add WiFi back in, a real headphone jack, and bigger memory and screen.
My treo 650 is pretty awesome, and the kybd is not too bad to use. They have plug in externals for it, but I am happy using it as is for most stuff. Typing a paper would be a chore, but if I did that I would use an external kybd.
I would like to see a bigger version with a 800x600 screen and 20 GB Ram, one day...
We have a 95 MB soft limit with a 100 MB hard limit, so usually I hit the bounce point before I even know I am there.
And why does Exchange expect you to delte email twice? Retarded.
I POP my stuff to my local machine (14 GB and counting, including all spam in my old trash folders) but the stuff I send/delete through the exchange web client eventually adds up and bites me in the butt.
Your 6 month time frame is a bit optimistic. A fly-by-night web site may be gone in six months, but some things stick around./. google both got big enough to last a while.
Google has a 100 Billion Market cap with 8billion in cash and they are making money on search. I doubt they will give up search any time soon when they make up to $100 per click on ad words.
Just for fun, go do a few click throughs on "luxury yacht" or "private jet" just to make google a few more hundred...
It is known that MS infiltrates online forums to promote their agenda.
Maybe now they are smarter and have outsourced this PR campaign through another company, like the Baystar deal. Something not so easy to track back to MS...
Recently, there has been more press supporting the idea that there were WMDs, we just did not find them:
"Since the 2003 invasion, an Israeli air force general and an Iraqi air force pilot have stated that Iraq flew WMD to Syria in the months leading up to the invasion. For obvious reasons, claims about the WMD being in Syria would be hard to verify.
More recently, David Gaubatz, a U.S. agent in Iraq after the U.S. invasion, said that the Iraq Survey Group, the U.S. team searching for WMD after the invasion, did not check four sealed underground bunkers in southern Iraq that, he was told by Iraqis, contained such weapons."
My dad bought me a few of these as a kid but it never sunk in. I could follow the instructions and put something together, but I was frustrated that I never really understood what the complex circiuits were doing.
Maybe I needed some more fundamentals, maybe I should have asked dad for some more help, maybe I didn't have the math for op-amps or whatever when I was 10. It did not come naturally and the environment was not right to help me really get it.
Maybe the educational materials that go along with those kits are better now. The radio shack stuff from 25 years ago didn't help me much...
We already have a box of the new giant Legos for my 16 month son. Double the size of Duplos, they are called Quatro.
Yeah, I know some turdburger will complain "thay are not Legos, they are Lego bricks." Whatever.
The new mindstorms are awesome. Basic programming concepts and cool little robots. My son doesn't quite get it yet...
I don't know if it helps much, but we also have a lot of musical instruments he has taken an interest in, like a old Casio keyboard and a harmonica. Not pushing, just letting him play with them.
I have been using Crossover Office for years and it is not painful, although it costs just a bit.
They have a great automatic installer for various office components and tons of other stuff (like browser plugins and fonts and other garbage).
It is worth the $40 they charge so you have 100% compatability with office docs. Office 2000 works fairly well on a decent machine, but I haven't tried XP.
In some cases, after an update my XP laptop garfs on ppt presentations, while wine on my linux box running powerpnt runs just fine. Funny that I have to move.ppt files to my linux desktop to edit them...
Microsoft abused monopoly power to gain unfair advantage over other in the market.
Is google the only mail provider? No? Then they are not a monopoly.
Are they offering something either better than other offering or cheaper than other offerings? Yes.
Just like WalMart is "evil" for providing cheap crap. They compete. Don't like good cheap crap? You are free to pay extra a a boutique or run your own mail server and thumb your nose at WalMart and Google.
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Supposedly they work for years, but they smell.
We have them in a new "green dorm" on campus. That plus dim lights in conference rooms and a fuel cell backup generator. A new 5kW system, nearly 100x more expensive than a gas powered system of similar size...
Hippies.
Then why did they cut firefox out of mozilla?
Browsing and email are the killer app for the internet.
Calendaring solutions / meeting scheduling plus newsgroups are the killer app for business.
Why not have a single application?
Bloat oh no! We can't expect people to download a 15 MB executable! I like having a email notification in my browser. I like having links and copy past handled effectively.
Why not put them all together and have one kick butt application?
Wait, we did have that in mozilla before the "core team" cut them all apart to simplify everything.
Now they start coming back together.
Whou would have thought that people might want to have a browser, calendar, and email client integrated? Brilliant!
Seamonkey? What kind of name is that? Mozilla was bad enough, at least you could stick with the same stupid name.
Maybe later, they could develop a web page editor, IM chat client, then link it to a web browser.
And we could call it Mozilla. Instead, we have five different projects with different names and weak integration. Crazy.
Remember, you can get the free version of RedHat from CentOS
http://www.centos.org/
No silly annual payments just to get support.
I personally use knoppix / debian since RedHat started charging for support.
People need to know CentOS is out there.
Nethack is the best and only quest. There are no others...
Where is an open source grammar checker or close source that works with wine?
Spellbound works nicely for spell checking posts in firefox, but I want to catch idiotic crap as well.
Yeah, the Treo is a bit more. Give them a year or two and they will be much cheaper. I think they are around $500 now, $200 with a contract. If you figure the contract price is near the actual production cost, that is at least close to $100. And I am sure they could change some features to get the price down some more as needed.
They still need to add WiFi back in, a real headphone jack, and bigger memory and screen.
My treo 650 is pretty awesome, and the kybd is not too bad to use. They have plug in externals for it, but I am happy using it as is for most stuff. Typing a paper would be a chore, but if I did that I would use an external kybd.
I would like to see a bigger version with a 800x600 screen and 20 GB Ram, one day...
I wish we could go back to the days of mafia run numbers rackets. They usually had 80% + return when not fixed.
Current state lottos are 50% return best case and taxable as well.
And remember, that $5 NCAA tourney poool is technically illegal in most places, evildoer....
I don't think that works on the web client, which is what I use a good bit of the time.
Plus, it is silly to have to do some silly key combo to delete email.
We have a 95 MB soft limit with a 100 MB hard limit, so usually I hit the bounce point before I even know I am there.
And why does Exchange expect you to delte email twice? Retarded.
I POP my stuff to my local machine (14 GB and counting, including all spam in my old trash folders) but the stuff I send
Just dug around a bit and found that metal social security cards are not issued, they are usually bought as a replacement.
I have never seen anyone selling SS cards, but I guess they are around. I assumed they were issued by the USG back years ago...
Grandpa passed away last year, and recently Grandma pulled out his social security card.
It was not a card, but a big piece of metal. A little bigger than a business card and too big for a wallet.
I don't know when they handed these out or when they stopped, but it looked pretty cool.
Your 6 month time frame is a bit optimistic. A fly-by-night web site may be gone in six months, but some things stick around.
Google has a 100 Billion Market cap with 8billion in cash and they are making money on search. I doubt they will give up search any time soon when they make up to $100 per click on ad words.
Just for fun, go do a few click throughs on "luxury yacht" or "private jet" just to make google a few more hundred...
Don't forget Google maps is the bomb, double true.
I think the term is AstroTurfer...
It is known that MS infiltrates online forums to promote their agenda.
Maybe now they are smarter and have outsourced this PR campaign through another company, like the Baystar deal. Something not so easy to track back to MS...
Recently, there has been more press supporting the idea that there were WMDs, we just did not find them:
"Since the 2003 invasion, an Israeli air force general and an Iraqi air force pilot have stated that Iraq flew WMD to Syria in the months leading up to the invasion. For obvious reasons, claims about the WMD being in Syria would be hard to verify.
More recently, David Gaubatz, a U.S. agent in Iraq after the U.S. invasion, said that the Iraq Survey Group, the U.S. team searching for WMD after the invasion, did not check four sealed underground bunkers in southern Iraq that, he was told by Iraqis, contained such weapons."
from http://www.kearneyhub.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16
And we have found WMDs in Iraq, just not "militarily relevant" stockpiles. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-07-0
You can't say thost weapons were not there, you can only say we have not found anything yet. Careful on semanitcs...
Only funny thing on SNL in the last couple of years. Classic...
I heard of some lady that did something similar with a cell phone + laptop deal, but she ran a p2p application.
Apparently they have a cap on usage, and she got stuck for hundreds in overages...
This defeats the purpose of charging you $100 per month to use a wifi PC, so cell providers won't let this fly.
I already do all the proposed functionality with my treo 650.
Do you really need video conferencing on a cell phone? I don't use video conferencing on my desktop...
I hate moving points. That is where my cell always dies. Treo= no moving points.
Bad idea.
Good idea: wireless mp3+mic headphones for my treo. bluetooth stinks.
My dad bought me a few of these as a kid but it never sunk in. I could follow the instructions and put something together, but I was frustrated that I never really understood what the complex circiuits were doing.
Maybe I needed some more fundamentals, maybe I should have asked dad for some more help, maybe I didn't have the math for op-amps or whatever when I was 10. It did not come naturally and the environment was not right to help me really get it.
Maybe the educational materials that go along with those kits are better now. The radio shack stuff from 25 years ago didn't help me much...
We already have a box of the new giant Legos for my 16 month son. Double the size of Duplos, they are called Quatro.
Yeah, I know some turdburger will complain "thay are not Legos, they are Lego bricks." Whatever.
The new mindstorms are awesome. Basic programming concepts and cool little robots. My son doesn't quite get it yet...
I don't know if it helps much, but we also have a lot of musical instruments he has taken an interest in, like a old Casio keyboard and a harmonica. Not pushing, just letting him play with them.
I have been using Crossover Office for years and it is not painful, although it costs just a bit.
They have a great automatic installer for various office components and tons of other stuff (like browser plugins and fonts and other garbage).
It is worth the $40 they charge so you have 100% compatability with office docs. Office 2000 works fairly well on a decent machine, but I haven't tried XP.
In some cases, after an update my XP laptop garfs on ppt presentations, while wine on my linux box running powerpnt runs just fine. Funny that I have to move
So now competition is evil?
Microsoft abused monopoly power to gain unfair advantage over other in the market.
Is google the only mail provider? No? Then they are not a monopoly.
Are they offering something either better than other offering or cheaper than other offerings? Yes.
Just like WalMart is "evil" for providing cheap crap. They compete. Don't like good cheap crap? You are free to pay extra a a boutique or run your own mail server and thumb your nose at WalMart and Google.