buy them cheap digital frames and load the pics and movies onto SD cards? A search will show you cheap MP3 players that may be as good. not the best answer, sorry. I like the 'Delete all other app' and 'isolate your network', and have it all just point to a web server, like airports and Twin Golden Arches.
it doesn't make economic sense to go paperless. In some cases paper originals are still required. I would audit your material and find out how long you are legally required to keep items for, then trash anything that you don't need. I had about 10years and in some cases 20 years of paperwork, the most that I needed was 7 years, and a few items for proof of employment, the rest is now compost. I didn't spend ages scanning, I don't have to thank about archiving discs, it all fits in a couple of boxes on the top of a cupboard. Paper is more robust than discs, and formatting and OS issues are not there, vs disc or other software solutions.
Ribbon? a context sensitive Toolbox stuck below the menubar? I don't see anything new or original about a Toolbox, either linear or not. Just another reason to run Windoze apps in full screen mode all of the time.
In a work environment that has email, web and other stuff, daily meetings were becoming a drag, so now we only meet when there is actually something to discuss.
with the automated assembly vs kit form, I would guess that a kit would be 3 x more, because of all of the manual handling required to get kits together. Electronics like this has really moved on from kits.
it's a route, the way to connect to your phone. A password is more like a key, if you have one then you can get into your whatever.
Worst password/pin. A telephone system at a major event many years ago, each journalist was given a unique 4 digit pin, they enter it and get dialtone and dial. Took about 10 seconds for them to workout that they could just pump in 4 digit codes until they got dial tone and they were then using other peoples accounts. Or the Video store software that stored passwords in plain text in a file called PW.TXT.
prerecorded voice modules, like http://www.electronics123.com/s.nl/it.A/id.2983/.f?sc=8&category=2 they are cheap and you can fit them into small paper/cardboard boxes from hobby shops. The guests can reuse them and record a reply or other message. BTW as for Geekness and marriage, I have been married for 34 years to the same woman, Anna didn't like me spending time on computers until I pointed out that she spent a lot of time knitting and watching TV, so we COMPROMISED, enjoyed time together at non-geek events, and also had time doing stuff that each wanted to do. Also, Don't use calling card size CD-roms, lots of current computers can't use them.
because a decade had passed and it was too hard to then identify what was 'new' in the original versions of MacOS vs what had been included in windows. And NO, Apple didn't steal the look and feel from Xerox, they used the idea of a window and mouse. The irony is that the current versions of Win and Mac GUI are based on NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP.
Apple vs Microsoft all over again! I can see that if this is used for commercial purposes then there is a case to answer, the basic content and style is duplicated, although the photo is from a different position, it is clearly intended to duplicate eliments of the first photo.
100 million is chicken feed if it stops or slows sales of rival products. This sort of money is spent by every major company in courts around the world.
what makes people think that storage on a cloud has less problems than storing on-site? Being shutdown by the law, any cloud service could be shut down by a power company for unpaid bills, rogue, low paid staff, telcos may have a major failures, etc. I would expect that along with large reputable clouds, that there would be dodgy operations that grab the money and run, or just have bad management. Diversity, not cloud dependency.
been said a hundred times, people just stopped using the product that was the bread and butter of KODAK. They go the same way that thousands of other companies go that have unpopular products. Polaroid, Palm (it isn't the same company, it's just a name) etc. And KODAK had it's share of innovations that also passed into history, along with wide ties. 110 film, Disk cameras, KODAK instant picture cameras, who remembers them? Who sits and watches slides projected on a wall? I have all of these products, I love film, but I can buy a 12 Megapixel camera cheaper than 4 rolls of developed and printed film, sad. Yes, my current workday camera is a KODAK digital, and printer dock. I can't get consumables for the KODAK printer, and it isn't 4 years old.
i3, Win7 basic, or Android? 2GB RAM, DVD? optional Blu-ray? basically a netbook with a bigger screen. There is enough difference in hardware to ward off the Apple legal boys. Apple keys are white, not silver. It looks like a few monitors and PCs that have been around.
agreed, the cars designed hybrids will work better because there is more to fuel economy than just a hybrid drive=train, it's a total package. light weight, body shape, wheels and tyres, etc. Fitting a hybrid drive system to a 'normal' car body is a compromise, and will not be effective as designing the hybrid from the ground up, BUT there are some cost benefits in the manufacturing stages, so only time will tell. BTW, the biggest ROI difference is the cost of fuel, which varies widely around the globe.
1/ lithium batteries are almost 100% recyclable. iPods, laptops and the like pose a bigger lithium battery problem. 2/ energy to charge hybrids come from regen braking, and some excess energy from the ICE. 3/ there is an increasing amount on energy sourced from hydro (and there are some big hydro installations), solar and wind, not just coal, oil and LPG.
I drive about 100 miles a day in a mix of good country roads and town traffic. I consistently get 50mpg+ or about 4.9 ltrs/100kms. It's a 2004 Prius and so the total savings in petrol over the life of the car balances out the extra initial cost. BUT you have to take the following things into account, I live in Australia and pay $1.40 a ltr for petrol, the car has done 280,000kms, which is a high figure for many cars, I travel at the speed of the surrounding traffic, so I could get better if I tried. I diesel also attracts a premium price here, and fuel prices are $1.50+ ltr, so there is no saving in buying a Diesel vs a hybrid.
they are stereoscopic. People are not sold on them because they are not really 3D and everyone knows it, it just an enhanced view, still taken from a single point. Your can't see around an object by changing you position, it's simply not a great leap forward.
I can't justify the dollars to upgrade to Win7, because my perfectly good hardware would not function as well as it does in XP, and I don't see value in spending dollars on a hardware upgrade for the same reason.
I was here to see some technical discussion about the system used, and I find a big pile of crap about the use of parking spaces. where did all of the interesting people go?
the discussion is about General Purpose Computing, Apple is an example, it applies to all of the major companies. If I don't like Apple, I buy from someone else. If you don't like what is happening in the computer world, learn carpentry or cooking, or build your own hardware.
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buy them cheap digital frames and load the pics and movies onto SD cards? A search will show you cheap MP3 players that may be as good. not the best answer, sorry. I like the 'Delete all other app' and 'isolate your network', and have it all just point to a web server, like airports and Twin Golden Arches.
it doesn't make economic sense to go paperless. In some cases paper originals are still required. I would audit your material and find out how long you are legally required to keep items for, then trash anything that you don't need. I had about 10years and in some cases 20 years of paperwork, the most that I needed was 7 years, and a few items for proof of employment, the rest is now compost. I didn't spend ages scanning, I don't have to thank about archiving discs, it all fits in a couple of boxes on the top of a cupboard. Paper is more robust than discs, and formatting and OS issues are not there, vs disc or other software solutions.
Ribbon? a context sensitive Toolbox stuck below the menubar? I don't see anything new or original about a Toolbox, either linear or not. Just another reason to run Windoze apps in full screen mode all of the time.
In a work environment that has email, web and other stuff, daily meetings were becoming a drag, so now we only meet when there is actually something to discuss.
with the automated assembly vs kit form, I would guess that a kit would be 3 x more, because of all of the manual handling required to get kits together. Electronics like this has really moved on from kits.
it's a route, the way to connect to your phone. A password is more like a key, if you have one then you can get into your whatever.
Worst password/pin. A telephone system at a major event many years ago, each journalist was given a unique 4 digit pin, they enter it and get dialtone and dial. Took about 10 seconds for them to workout that they could just pump in 4 digit codes until they got dial tone and they were then using other peoples accounts. Or the Video store software that stored passwords in plain text in a file called PW.TXT.
I would guess that commercial interests are already raping the internet for info now, just buy off-the-shelf software.
prerecorded voice modules, like http://www.electronics123.com/s.nl/it.A/id.2983/.f?sc=8&category=2 they are cheap and you can fit them into small paper/cardboard boxes from hobby shops. The guests can reuse them and record a reply or other message. BTW as for Geekness and marriage, I have been married for 34 years to the same woman, Anna didn't like me spending time on computers until I pointed out that she spent a lot of time knitting and watching TV, so we COMPROMISED, enjoyed time together at non-geek events, and also had time doing stuff that each wanted to do. Also, Don't use calling card size CD-roms, lots of current computers can't use them.
because a decade had passed and it was too hard to then identify what was 'new' in the original versions of MacOS vs what had been included in windows. And NO, Apple didn't steal the look and feel from Xerox, they used the idea of a window and mouse. The irony is that the current versions of Win and Mac GUI are based on NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP.
Apple vs Microsoft all over again! I can see that if this is used for commercial purposes then there is a case to answer, the basic content and style is duplicated, although the photo is from a different position, it is clearly intended to duplicate eliments of the first photo.
100 million is chicken feed if it stops or slows sales of rival products. This sort of money is spent by every major company in courts around the world.
'likely' that a 5 year projection about the future of a PC related item, might possibly be right. were is the news?
what makes people think that storage on a cloud has less problems than storing on-site? Being shutdown by the law, any cloud service could be shut down by a power company for unpaid bills, rogue, low paid staff, telcos may have a major failures, etc. I would expect that along with large reputable clouds, that there would be dodgy operations that grab the money and run, or just have bad management. Diversity, not cloud dependency.
been said a hundred times, people just stopped using the product that was the bread and butter of KODAK. They go the same way that thousands of other companies go that have unpopular products. Polaroid, Palm (it isn't the same company, it's just a name) etc. And KODAK had it's share of innovations that also passed into history, along with wide ties. 110 film, Disk cameras, KODAK instant picture cameras, who remembers them? Who sits and watches slides projected on a wall? I have all of these products, I love film, but I can buy a 12 Megapixel camera cheaper than 4 rolls of developed and printed film, sad. Yes, my current workday camera is a KODAK digital, and printer dock. I can't get consumables for the KODAK printer, and it isn't 4 years old.
many times I read the title and think of something very different, this time it was 'enhanced android', must be a fembot! from Austin Powers.
i3, Win7 basic, or Android? 2GB RAM, DVD? optional Blu-ray? basically a netbook with a bigger screen.
There is enough difference in hardware to ward off the Apple legal boys. Apple keys are white, not silver. It looks like a few monitors and PCs that have been around.
agreed, the cars designed hybrids will work better because there is more to fuel economy than just a hybrid drive=train, it's a total package. light weight, body shape, wheels and tyres, etc. Fitting a hybrid drive system to a 'normal' car body is a compromise, and will not be effective as designing the hybrid from the ground up, BUT there are some cost benefits in the manufacturing stages, so only time will tell. BTW, the biggest ROI difference is the cost of fuel, which varies widely around the globe.
1/ lithium batteries are almost 100% recyclable. iPods, laptops and the like pose a bigger lithium battery problem.
2/ energy to charge hybrids come from regen braking, and some excess energy from the ICE.
3/ there is an increasing amount on energy sourced from hydro (and there are some big hydro installations), solar and wind, not just coal, oil and LPG.
I drive about 100 miles a day in a mix of good country roads and town traffic. I consistently get 50mpg+ or about 4.9 ltrs/100kms. It's a 2004 Prius and so the total savings in petrol over the life of the car balances out the extra initial cost. BUT you have to take the following things into account, I live in Australia and pay $1.40 a ltr for petrol, the car has done 280,000kms, which is a high figure for many cars, I travel at the speed of the surrounding traffic, so I could get better if I tried. I diesel also attracts a premium price here, and fuel prices are $1.50+ ltr, so there is no saving in buying a Diesel vs a hybrid.
they are stereoscopic. People are not sold on them because they are not really 3D and everyone knows it, it just an enhanced view, still taken from a single point. Your can't see around an object by changing you position, it's simply not a great leap forward.
Did I get to say it first??? Ex-Microsoft employees build a useful Blue Screen of Death!
I can't justify the dollars to upgrade to Win7, because my perfectly good hardware would not function as well as it does in XP, and I don't see value in spending dollars on a hardware upgrade for the same reason.
I was here to see some technical discussion about the system used, and I find a big pile of crap about the use of parking spaces. where did all of the interesting people go?
the discussion is about General Purpose Computing, Apple is an example, it applies to all of the major companies. If I don't like Apple, I buy from someone else. If you don't like what is happening in the computer world, learn carpentry or cooking, or build your own hardware.