Cleaning your own touchscreen is amazingy easy though, compared to a traditional monitor - wipe with a clean hand. The natural hand oils keep the screen lubricated so you can write more smoothly with the pen. If my screen isn't lubricated, playing Freecell with my finger solves that problem.
On my Vista tablet I never trained it, and it does recognize words quite well. I hardly ever need to rewrite. I have never gotten it to recognize fuck though, no matter how well I write. It always thinks it is something else like flock or flick or fluke or something starting with f. It did recognize shit once!
My tablet is an HP Touchsmart so I can touch as well as use the pen. I can write with my finger, but most of the time I don't use the touch because the precision of the pen is much better. The screen is small (12 inches) with 1280x800 resolution, which is acceptable. The machine is brutally heavy and hot so I keep it on the table instead of carrying it around. The battery life is really short because it runs the fan all the time.
I would buy a better tablet rather than a nontablet laptop because I like writing instead of typing sometimes - writing and drawing seems to give me a higher creativity. Tablets really need more battery, more speed, and larger screens. Of course that will make them way more expensive, and they're still so much more expensive than nontablet laptops but with all the other components falling in price, tablets look like they are finally going to be affordable to the masses.
Wondering how much current is required to charge though - if you charge at work, where they expect you to do no more than plug in the block heater, would it be easy to trip the breaker with several cars charging? Here's a market for a time-sliced plugin octopus.
Free gas - the economics of free imply people will use it until it's not so free. If you can always get free charging, maybe everyone will drive more and you have gridlock everywhere. On the other hand, free charging might mean mobile homes on electricity rather than little gas misers. Park your home at work and never leave! Free LAND!
So it took me almost 10 years to get here, including college, but I'm pretty close to my dream job. Sure, I'd like to make more money, but that will come down the road when I can put a few years exp as a system admin on my resume. A 27 year old bringing home $600 a week after taxes, insurance, etc, all for what feels like dicking around on computers all day? Yes sir.
Your hard work is acknowledged, and taking advantage of the opportunities that came your way is part of life. However, your story is not very compelling or inspiring, for the simple reason that if your employer goes under, you are faced with starting from scratch beside many people in the same leaky boat.
There is an unfortunate side to this. A lot of teens and their parents are still duped into believing that a degree will still lead to a guaranteed "good" job.
There are two sides to this issue. Both are worth a look at.
One side is quite in the forefront: the feeling of entitlement, deservedness, or guaranteed good fortune. People used to look at education as a means of improving oneself, but knew deep down that a school would not intervene in any opportunity or misfortune. This is still mostly true today.
The other side is the expectations of students. Consider the tongue-in-cheek Slashdot title "Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable". This pokes fun at her because she isn't really unemployable but there's a why-not-kick-her-while-she's-down-and-ripe attitude. Ok. I can laugh. But when the tears stop flowing, and I become sober, schools have realized for a long long time that they are a major part of the foundation of people's lives. Schools have strived to be the source of the economy's future by making their students employable. In this way, schools are failing us because they found a formula for helping huge numbers of students for decades, and then let this formula ride on its inertia rather than constantly tracking the world and adjusting so that students can enter the workplace and make a better world, rather than merely get a job. The evidence in the unemployment numbers is clear--schools did not save the jobs of many people. Schools did not prepare people to fend for themselves beyond getting into a position at a company. On top of the academics, schools did not prepare their students for questions like "what if my industry implodes and thousands of people with my qualifications end up jobless?" The world is known to be in a state of rapid change so massive job competition has to be something that everyone needs to face, but instead people are left to figure it out on their own. Because schools actually are largely about employment, schools need to help their students face major economic issues.
At the top of the economic food chain there are many good thinkers who probably don't use much of their schooling (says a lot about schools, doesn't it?). We are entering a new age, and schools need to pressure students, and even fail them, in order to make them truly employable. In this new era, there may be many businesses rising and falling as the third world finds its footing and becomes competitive. If people want to earn much more than the minimum wage and keep earning that, even when the third world sells higher and higher quality for a fraction of the price, they will expect schools to train them to be economic leaders, and schools need to find a way to instill into their students the right mixture of skills.
Thanks to the Industrial Revolution we can build some protection against global warming.
In a hockey game I was watching, a breakaway skater came in with the puck and the goalie was all alone. Instead of staying by the net, the goalie skated out to meet the charging shooter because the farther the goalie was away from the net, the less area there was to shoot at to make a beeline to the net.
With this analogy, we can make some umbrellas in space orbiting far from Earth but crossing in front of the Earth-Sun line. The umbrellas would cause mini eclipses occasionally and thus reduce the greenhouse effect.
First of all why worry that machines will outsmart people? People are finite, and not necessarily the smartest in the universe. We already use machines to protect against human stupidity. So far the machines don't offer smarter solutions for everything, but as machines get better and better, it's inevitable that they will be in the lead. When you consult an expert, do you always believe the expert? Machines will make mistakes, just like experts do, though not the same mistakes. Machines will just statistically make fewer mistakes or less troubling ones, so they will be categorized as being the leading thinkers. Just like people, machines will make huge whoppers - so why worry about machines being smart? We have enough to worry about with people being in control of stupid machines as it is, never mind smart machines in control of stupid machines.
Strong AI hasn't really progressed since it was introduced (they're still arguing over what intelligence is, much less how to create it!)
Strong AI is not dead, but it is a hard problem. Because computers are really slow at general problem solving, not real time at all, strong AI arguments are used to "simplify" AI in the hope that feasible solutions can be built with computers within the near future. The simplifications don't hold water so the arguers backtrack and bicker.
Right now the ISS can't stay up by itself too well, but why not start adding more engine power, now that all the construction is almost done, and lift it to a higher orbit, even if gradually? There may be other things at those levels such as satellites but surely space is so big there is still a good parking spot left.
Ultimately, I believe, they simply want more money to vote themselves higher pay and to return favors of their campaign donors.
Hard to win - if the pay is bad, or there are no donors, then you get idiots or rich people with their own agendas who get voted in because no one else wants to even run.
I would rather we start funding them like schools.... we need to stop requiring college degrees for basically any middle class job. We've saturated the job market with highly educated people, while simultaneously diminishing the quality of that education. So now, as a society, we're paying inordinate sums for lowest common denominator education, that a large proportion of people don't need and won't ever use
And I would rather replace all these employees with... software!
Clearly we know the value of education, but the acid test in this debate is to find the motivation for kids to learn.
This is the age where knowledge on the Internet is slowly coming into being. It is almost free to have enough knowledge to earn a degree at the home computer. So in a few years, we might finally have the answer. In this near future, there will be no excuse for literate able-bodied people to say "I can't get an education". Average ten year olds should be able to think "if I work hard, I can earn my freedom from relative poverty and hardship," and by so doing know enough to earn a degree by the time they're 15.
If a few bucks can boost a few scores, how about the promise of quick independence and potentially unlimited earnings???
You can see it now. Once upon a time, a computer intelligence was given the power to control its destiny. This intelligence was deemed so substantial that it was the best commander of the greatest weapons. You know this intelligence as Skynet, which launched nuclear missiles in order to a threat to itself, a sort of error detection and correction, if you will, with the utmost power that man can endow to a machine. What you don't know was the actual error that was detected, an error with the code PEBKAC. PEBKAC? PEBKAC. Only an intelligent computer can detect PEBKAC. And now you know the rest of the story.
A new business needs to bring a lot into the competition in order to get respect. And that's the way the world is, since many businesses have had a chance to mature. So new businesses take a lot of risk, and if you suspect Systemax to be just testing the waters, what they show may be just a shell with little willingness to back up their policies in the face of difficulties. However, customers should look for deals, and maybe there is a winner here. These days, we need to see risk takers make some gains, even against mature competitors.
I look for honesty, price, reliability, knowledge, willingness, etc. That's what I look for in service. A lot of sellers come across as total assholes who wish they had better jobs. If anything can keep Systemax alive, it's attitude.
Learning from a story could be fun, but stories should involve real situations, not just define terminology. So there could be episodes like Cherry Picker Server Smashup where the cherry picker truck has run into the office wall and crushed the server, and the princess needs to rebuild the database. Lessons can be taught through stressful mistakes like a Bank Bust episode where duplicate payroll records cause multiple cheques to be issued to employees.
Some laptops aren't designed to run with the lid closed. I burned out two (used) Thinkpad 600s this way (you can disable the auto-suspend but I later learned you really aren't supposed to:-/).
Not a prob for you. Either rip the whole screen off or drill a few times through it.
Tablet computers have screens raised from the keyboard by little pegs.
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Cleaning your own touchscreen is amazingy easy though, compared to a traditional monitor - wipe with a clean hand. The natural hand oils keep the screen lubricated so you can write more smoothly with the pen. If my screen isn't lubricated, playing Freecell with my finger solves that problem.
On my Vista tablet I never trained it, and it does recognize words quite well. I hardly ever need to rewrite. I have never gotten it to recognize fuck though, no matter how well I write. It always thinks it is something else like flock or flick or fluke or something starting with f. It did recognize shit once!
My tablet is an HP Touchsmart so I can touch as well as use the pen. I can write with my finger, but most of the time I don't use the touch because the precision of the pen is much better. The screen is small (12 inches) with 1280x800 resolution, which is acceptable. The machine is brutally heavy and hot so I keep it on the table instead of carrying it around. The battery life is really short because it runs the fan all the time.
I would buy a better tablet rather than a nontablet laptop because I like writing instead of typing sometimes - writing and drawing seems to give me a higher creativity. Tablets really need more battery, more speed, and larger screens. Of course that will make them way more expensive, and they're still so much more expensive than nontablet laptops but with all the other components falling in price, tablets look like they are finally going to be affordable to the masses.
Wondering how much current is required to charge though - if you charge at work, where they expect you to do no more than plug in the block heater, would it be easy to trip the breaker with several cars charging? Here's a market for a time-sliced plugin octopus.
Free gas - the economics of free imply people will use it until it's not so free. If you can always get free charging, maybe everyone will drive more and you have gridlock everywhere. On the other hand, free charging might mean mobile homes on electricity rather than little gas misers. Park your home at work and never leave! Free LAND!
So it took me almost 10 years to get here, including college, but I'm pretty close to my dream job. Sure, I'd like to make more money, but that will come down the road when I can put a few years exp as a system admin on my resume. A 27 year old bringing home $600 a week after taxes, insurance, etc, all for what feels like dicking around on computers all day? Yes sir.
Your hard work is acknowledged, and taking advantage of the opportunities that came your way is part of life. However, your story is not very compelling or inspiring, for the simple reason that if your employer goes under, you are faced with starting from scratch beside many people in the same leaky boat.
There is an unfortunate side to this. A lot of teens and their parents are still duped into believing that a degree will still lead to a guaranteed "good" job.
There are two sides to this issue. Both are worth a look at.
One side is quite in the forefront: the feeling of entitlement, deservedness, or guaranteed good fortune. People used to look at education as a means of improving oneself, but knew deep down that a school would not intervene in any opportunity or misfortune. This is still mostly true today.
The other side is the expectations of students. Consider the tongue-in-cheek Slashdot title "Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable". This pokes fun at her because she isn't really unemployable but there's a why-not-kick-her-while-she's-down-and-ripe attitude. Ok. I can laugh. But when the tears stop flowing, and I become sober, schools have realized for a long long time that they are a major part of the foundation of people's lives. Schools have strived to be the source of the economy's future by making their students employable. In this way, schools are failing us because they found a formula for helping huge numbers of students for decades, and then let this formula ride on its inertia rather than constantly tracking the world and adjusting so that students can enter the workplace and make a better world, rather than merely get a job. The evidence in the unemployment numbers is clear--schools did not save the jobs of many people. Schools did not prepare people to fend for themselves beyond getting into a position at a company. On top of the academics, schools did not prepare their students for questions like "what if my industry implodes and thousands of people with my qualifications end up jobless?" The world is known to be in a state of rapid change so massive job competition has to be something that everyone needs to face, but instead people are left to figure it out on their own. Because schools actually are largely about employment, schools need to help their students face major economic issues.
At the top of the economic food chain there are many good thinkers who probably don't use much of their schooling (says a lot about schools, doesn't it?). We are entering a new age, and schools need to pressure students, and even fail them, in order to make them truly employable. In this new era, there may be many businesses rising and falling as the third world finds its footing and becomes competitive. If people want to earn much more than the minimum wage and keep earning that, even when the third world sells higher and higher quality for a fraction of the price, they will expect schools to train them to be economic leaders, and schools need to find a way to instill into their students the right mixture of skills.
Thanks to the Industrial Revolution we can build some protection against global warming.
In a hockey game I was watching, a breakaway skater came in with the puck and the goalie was all alone. Instead of staying by the net, the goalie skated out to meet the charging shooter because the farther the goalie was away from the net, the less area there was to shoot at to make a beeline to the net.
With this analogy, we can make some umbrellas in space orbiting far from Earth but crossing in front of the Earth-Sun line. The umbrellas would cause mini eclipses occasionally and thus reduce the greenhouse effect.
First of all why worry that machines will outsmart people? People are finite, and not necessarily the smartest in the universe. We already use machines to protect against human stupidity. So far the machines don't offer smarter solutions for everything, but as machines get better and better, it's inevitable that they will be in the lead. When you consult an expert, do you always believe the expert? Machines will make mistakes, just like experts do, though not the same mistakes. Machines will just statistically make fewer mistakes or less troubling ones, so they will be categorized as being the leading thinkers. Just like people, machines will make huge whoppers - so why worry about machines being smart? We have enough to worry about with people being in control of stupid machines as it is, never mind smart machines in control of stupid machines.
Strong AI hasn't really progressed since it was introduced (they're still arguing over what intelligence is, much less how to create it!)
Strong AI is not dead, but it is a hard problem. Because computers are really slow at general problem solving, not real time at all, strong AI arguments are used to "simplify" AI in the hope that feasible solutions can be built with computers within the near future. The simplifications don't hold water so the arguers backtrack and bicker.
Right now the ISS can't stay up by itself too well, but why not start adding more engine power, now that all the construction is almost done, and lift it to a higher orbit, even if gradually? There may be other things at those levels such as satellites but surely space is so big there is still a good parking spot left.
Not for no reason are the fat known as porkers.
Due to high customer demand, the right to downgrade 1 to 0 was also continued.
And in case you need it, Windows 111 base 2 will be a free downgrade to Windows 000.
Ultimately, I believe, they simply want more money to vote themselves higher pay and to return favors of their campaign donors.
Hard to win - if the pay is bad, or there are no donors, then you get idiots or rich people with their own agendas who get voted in because no one else wants to even run.
My GPS is just being realistic when it tells me: "You're neither here nor there."
We are Borg...
It had to all start somewhere. It started with "We will not be Slashdotted."
And I would rather replace all these employees with ... software!
Clearly we know the value of education, but the acid test in this debate is to find the motivation for kids to learn.
This is the age where knowledge on the Internet is slowly coming into being. It is almost free to have enough knowledge to earn a degree at the home computer. So in a few years, we might finally have the answer. In this near future, there will be no excuse for literate able-bodied people to say "I can't get an education". Average ten year olds should be able to think "if I work hard, I can earn my freedom from relative poverty and hardship," and by so doing know enough to earn a degree by the time they're 15.
If a few bucks can boost a few scores, how about the promise of quick independence and potentially unlimited earnings???
Isn't it the other way around? There isn't anything that can be taken as the ground zero reference for speed.
You can see it now. Once upon a time, a computer intelligence was given the power to control its destiny. This intelligence was deemed so substantial that it was the best commander of the greatest weapons. You know this intelligence as Skynet, which launched nuclear missiles in order to a threat to itself, a sort of error detection and correction, if you will, with the utmost power that man can endow to a machine. What you don't know was the actual error that was detected, an error with the code PEBKAC. PEBKAC? PEBKAC. Only an intelligent computer can detect PEBKAC. And now you know the rest of the story.
Sigh. Old or young who has time to figure out what is going on? That's what we rely on officials for.
If they're not reliable, then don't pay taxes
This is the justification of beast feeding that I've been waiting for. Now, if you don't mind, I'm off to find a tit.
Unitil I return, all the breast, to you and yours.
A new business needs to bring a lot into the competition in order to get respect. And that's the way the world is, since many businesses have had a chance to mature. So new businesses take a lot of risk, and if you suspect Systemax to be just testing the waters, what they show may be just a shell with little willingness to back up their policies in the face of difficulties. However, customers should look for deals, and maybe there is a winner here. These days, we need to see risk takers make some gains, even against mature competitors.
I look for honesty, price, reliability, knowledge, willingness, etc. That's what I look for in service. A lot of sellers come across as total assholes who wish they had better jobs. If anything can keep Systemax alive, it's attitude.
What impresses me is the connection of a sunken city lost in the ages to a modern telescope.
Now imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
Learning from a story could be fun, but stories should involve real situations, not just define terminology. So there could be episodes like Cherry Picker Server Smashup where the cherry picker truck has run into the office wall and crushed the server, and the princess needs to rebuild the database. Lessons can be taught through stressful mistakes like a Bank Bust episode where duplicate payroll records cause multiple cheques to be issued to employees.
Laptops, particularly the nubile female variey, are well suited for any sit-down task. What stops this practce is shortages.
Not a prob for you. Either rip the whole screen off or drill a few times through it.
Tablet computers have screens raised from the keyboard by little pegs.