i know you meant to be funny but most of what's on that list read a lot more like the 'best inventions of 1995' than of 2005... i mean my 6 year old TV set has front side inputs... as does my 8 year old vcr... and ten the 'free domain name' haha I had free domain name hosting for the blog i ran in 1999...
what will they invent in 2006 to top this list the Wheel? Sliced bread? maybe Color Television? no no i know They'll invent Fire!
pay 1000$ for a desktop computer so that their kids can stay competitive.
I can configure a 64-bit processor based system with totally basic functionality for $300 (linux) or $379 (legitimate windows XP)
So the question begs to be asked, why would somone making $5 a day, pay $1,000 for a 'gaming' pc, when a perfectly legit 'educational use' pc can be configured for $700 less? plus the kid gets the 'learning' experience of putting the parts together;)
I can configure a 32-bit system for even less, but then your kids aren't going to be learning how to code 64-bit apps (although if you just want them to learn basic computer skills, a 32-bit system will work fine)
unless of course you plan on sending your kid along the path of being a pro gamer, there is no reason to drop a 'grand' on a pc for educational use.
Las vegas has done better than that... when was the last time you saw a slot machine or table game that was 'too hard' to leanr how to play in 5 minutes or less?
so, by simply making the games simple, they attract a wider audience to wager and (mostly) loose money to the casinos...
clearly to come to that number they're calculating $1 for every mp3 traded over kazza, emule etc... and $20 for every movie over said p2p services...
i can't imagine a better way to 'inflate' the dollar value of 'cybercrime' than to include the 'data sharing' crimes, which steal only 'potential' earnings, mostly from people who would have sacraficed on other manufactured goods etc if they had bought said material.
you might as well take netflix profit, inflate it by 20, and say that's what netflix has cost the movie studios by making it super easy to watch dvds at home.
the point is that someone could take the netzero buisness plan, and make a scam based company that instead of 'installing' just a simple ad banner installed a data mining tool so they could scam everyone at once out of loads of cash. the problem isn't with netzero, just the fact that a legitimitabe buisness started out with a 'too good to be true' model and wound up with way more customers than they could realistically provide service for for the ad revenues they had.. well.. it shows how easily some scammer could Start up a scam site that seemed on the face of things to be legitimate... and wound up wiping out peoples checking accounts etc...
and sadly, the average american idiot can easily see a 40k a year income, and easily see quadruple that in credit limit with about 15-25 credit card offers... 'a fool and his money are soon parted' has never been more true. heck even a 'intelligent' person can be suckered in with a plausible pitch you pay $15 to be 'included' in a special survey group, whhere you fill out market surveys and recieve $1-2 per survey filled out, the '$15' membership fee to filter out 'rif raff' so as to attract more 'marketers' seems like it could ve a viable and realistic marketing company, only it turns out that the first 'batch' are paid with the money they 'paid' to the company, and not given more than a few surveys and when they give 'good' feedback on said site, massive more suckers come in, and then the place rakes in enough cash closes shop, and no-one ever sees their $15 memberships except the 'first' thousand or so... and the next 20-50 thousand all their cash is just taken to parts unknown... 300k to 750k in 'easy' money:/ if you bother to mail out fake checks you can keep the operation running a month or two longer than if you simply stop offering 'surveys' and possibly fool enough people to get a quick million... basically any offer that asks for money up front is probably a scam, even if they're only asking $10-$15 sometimes they make the offers sound almost too plausable.. 'install our adbar, get paid to surf the web' meanwhile their adbar includes a keylogger and phishing toolkit to data mine you for access to bank accounts etc, so they can clean you out in one fell swoop...
remember, Netzero started off offering 'free' dialup access with 'ad' banners... and they were perfectilly legitimate... so it's possible for some clever scam artists to come up with reasonable or realistic sounding 'scams' that act like a legit business for weeks or months before they 'become' a bogus scam that trys to clean out a lot of unsuspecting people for millions...
the only multiple agp device motherboards on the market (period) are Integrated Graphic solutions boards that include an AGP slot...
so i don't see how 'allowing multiple agp slots' was the major draw of agp 8x when there are not even any legacy products currently on the market that support this mythical 'dual slot' agp setup.
the current state of the industry is that agp graphic cards are as big a plague as normal PCI cards were when agp adoption was in it's early days. eventually budget cards and remnants will be then entire agp market segment... the only selling point of an agp card is that one can get a $40 socket 754 motherboard, and a $60 'semptron' cpu, and have a system fully capable of playing even the best system killers when paired with a 6600GT and 2 GB of system ram... total cost for such a 'budget' gamer system might run one oh, $600+ not bad for a system that can run Doom 3 at 1280x1024 4xfsaa at a playable 40 fps... but as i've said, the price diff in the pcie card is more than enough to make one want the $550+ 'pcie' version of the 'budget' gamer. even if the motherboard cost more than double the price, the graphic card was cheaper enough to more than break even. unless of course someone has a legacy agp card they want to 'milk' for a few more years, there really isn't a good reason to buy an agp based system for anyone considering playing games, now or in the future.
Like it or not, AGP is really the standard for video expansion right now.
sorry to nit pick, but AGP is dead, for the latest and greatest the AGP and PCI Express version of the same card, and the AGP version costs $150 more. you can buy a Very nice motherboard for that price difference....
AGP is a legacy product, in it's death throes. the cards require more circuitry, and they cost more. buying a motherbord with an agp slot relegates you to obsolete (or budget) 2005 model cards or paying a super premium on the high end 2006 cards.
Why? because you can only have 1 AGP slot in a mother board, you can have 4 PCIEx16 slots, and still keep slotfans below them.. like it or not PCI Express x16 is here to stay, and agp is going the way of the dinosaur it was.
there may not be a 'real world performance' issue between the two technologies, until you put a pair of gt7800's in SLI mode... or a pair of radeon X1800's in crossfire mode... then you see why agp is dead and dying.
'services' is not ip royalties is ip. 'servicees' is everything from making beds, to cooking tacos, basicially anything that isn't manufacture or royalties or agraculture...
Now i realize some IP winds up being sold as a 'service' or winds up being reproted as a 'manufactured good' because the person who owns said ip isn't selling or renting it to others... but the 'services' category IS not the same thing as IP. and MOST of that category is stuff that Has Almost Nothing To do with IP.
Fact, IP was the Number 4 export for the united states in 2004.
and at about 7.5% of our total exports, it wasn't aa huge a player as you made it out to be.
2. It's one of the reasons why we're one of the richest nations on the planet
BS, we're rich because a. america had vast untapped resources and still widely under utilized natural resource bases b. america stole virtually every piece of technology they could to 'build' their industrial base and c. no major wars rased any of our industrial complexs.
3. it's a major factor in the quality of life we enjoy.
Actually the ammount of profit made off 'ideas' has almost no correlation to qquality of life what so ever. there are a lot of important factors, but frankly ip centric societies (the UK) have managed to prosper with tight IP laws, and 'historically lax' IP nations as the US have also prospered... IP laws come in so late in the equasion that they can't really change a whole lot about an economy...
4. It's no coincidence that countries which don't pay much bother to the Berne Convention and other similar international agreements are by and large shitty places to live.
others called BS on this already, for 103 years the US refused to sign said convention. the entire decade 'of greed' occured before said convention was signed in the US.
I understand what you're saying, but technically, you're saying GE would also go into the list of tier 1 computer assembler makers who don't pay a MS tax, afterall they ship millions of miroprocessorer controlled microwave ovens. a computer is a computer after all.
Computers are IDEAL assitive technology for the deaf-blind. they open up a whole new world for deaf blind individuals, because now they can communicate and interact and be treated just like any other annonymous coward on the internet. there are enough companies making or trying to improve existing technologies, and it's true the deaf-blind are limited to the functionality of a command-line/keyboard shortcut/macro/script based interface, but as many slashdot readers can tell you the power and functionality of a command line interface is not to be dismissed.
some of the ideas are pretty good, optional text riddle captchas, an 800 number that works with TDD, or even an e-mail form that is 'spam filtered' to filter out massive 'bot' requests...
Like it's true that the 'deafblind' are about 0.04% of the population, statistically, but on a world with 6 billion people that's over 2.4 million deaf-blind persons globally.. 2.4 million people who prior to computers were 'difficult' to communicate with, but now they could very well be posting messages on message boards around the internet, intentionally not telling anyone because on the internet no-one knows they're deaf-blind...
They should at least recommend a specific product, else the remaining OS/2 userbase will entirely fragment.
What, both of them?
What there was two? I thought they were worried about the creating a case of MPD where by the last user of os/2 warp fragmented into different personalities, each of whome had a linux distro of choice.
There is the trick, what most people don't realize is that 1080i is actually only able to capture motion at 15 fps. because at 30 fps, 15 are the a frames, and 15 are the b frames. The reason Motion pictures worked so well with 24fps is because movies have alwys used a 'progressive' display technology.
There is also a 1080p format, but unless you pay as much on a tv set as a car, you won't be getting one of those (unless it's a PC monitor) anytime soon. Since almost nothing is shot in 1080p (except star wars, episode III) you won't be getting that much content unless you decide to pay as much as some people would spend on a house on a 1080p digital camera system.
Now I don't know this for certain, but i suspect that sporting events are actually shot at much higher than broadcast frame rates to facilitate the 'instant replay' they are usually showing them at 1/8th or 1/16th speed.. simply shooting at 60fps would double the quality of the 'instant' replay, if they aren't currently doing so. and thus now you know why all sporting events are fillmed in progressive scan, and why we as consumers should REJECT inferior 1080i native sets.
What website with content for deaf-blind (_only_ text) would require registration to retrieve such information?
I was thinking of such uncommon sites as slashdot.org (low karma users had manditory captchas to post, and they still may have random/anti flood ones) or perhaps Google.com's blogger.com which requires a captcha for every comment. I was also thiking of e-mail signups at yahoo.com hotmail.com mail.com etc. Anyone at anytime could loose both their hearing and their vision, either from infection, or repeated damage to the eyes and ears from say, deafeningly loud music and intensely bright lighting/lasers etc.
As rare as it is that a person is born deaf and blind, or becomes deaf and blind in childhood or adulthood it Does happen, often enough that companies interacting with millions of customers need to think about easy, affordable solutions to accomodate people unfortunate enough to lack both vision and hearing. some of the solutions people have thought of are really quite simple, so it seems quite disturbing to me that the last i checked of the major free webmail sites only mail.com seems to have a link for the disabled to go to to assist in signing up for webmail.
what i find more ironic is that my mom tried to install 'drivers' for a wireless usb keyboard and mouse, and made them unusable (they 3rd party drivers actually forze her system up) when they worked fine without any 'propriety drivers' under windows xp. of course, she couldn't find the signal calibration button on the bottom of the keyboard/mouse either. when a king kong sized _4_ page (2 pages in english, 2 pages in spanish) instruction manual walked you through step by step.
it's amazing that people can't read 2 pieces of paper to be bothered to get something working. i guess that's why most people consider mastering the 'play' and 'rewind' buttons on a vcr as an acheivment.
well i'm pretty sure that you get all those channels for $45 a month with satelite tv, although you pay $5 a month extra per tv... cable companies wish they could charge $5 a month more per tv, but since they can't they set their prices according to demographics.
well in this case it was looking for soething that Wasn't patented yet, if you're turning up 100 results for the keywoard, you could say 'yup, it's patented' just by guessing that with 100 patents at least one will infringe on the idea... if you get 0 matches then hey 'it's patentable!'
no, you have to lock the door, and then have key set right beside it with a note saying 'not for use in door' thus they've 'broken' your encryption by using the key in the lock.
fuel economy isn't enough what we need are carbon neutral power sources. some people are trying to do that by making companies that provide carbon neutral fuel but we've got a long way to go, trying to 'preach' people into using more efficient equipment is not nearly as effective as trying to promote and support the development of companies that actually give people a REAL solution that replaces the carbon dioxide increasing fuels we use now.
or developers could simply have the keyboard layout be a simple text file that anyone can edit. not that hard, allow multiple keypress combos be assigned to a single key, and bam people can maybe remap the layouts to work better for them. a lot of games have that kind of functionality... it's not hard to implement, and potentially opens your product to use by slower, disabled people.
you're missing the point, building more industy in nations that are 'less developed' increases their productive capabilities, and thus the 'wealth' (which is really just a measure of the global productive capability) but 'free trade' only 'creates' or contributes to wealth when it allows people to work harder doing what they enjoy, and having what they produce exported to markets where it's desireble to import those goods.
the only monitary sense where free trade 'creates' wealth is the aspect to which the government is not confiscating wealth simply to prop up artificially high prices.
we're working from a finite resource base with a lot of wildcards like how 'motivated' and 'inspired' one nations work force is to work hard for the same compensation. economies are limited in their growth by technologies to better exploit the finite resource base we have.
What parent meant is right now the 'hot' market is to go in and develop less developed nations(in this case by exporting jobs, which increases the money flowing into the local economy, which leads to the formation of a middle class, who create a need for a working class to sustain the 'middle class lifestyle' etc.. increasing economic growth rapidly) in an effort to find increasing bottom lines and greater profits etc. once every nation has been as technologically developed as it can be, there is no more room for 'expansive' growth, barring improved technologies.
although arguably if you consder post war japan, ceompletely rebuilding an industrial base leads to a vast leap in productive efficiency until the equipment and locations begin to wear down again.
you know some people are still using black and white tv sets.
but seriously the 1950's called they want their 'color tv's are too expensive' bit back.
HDtv will continue to grow, people don't always wait for stuff to break to replace it, they wait until it makes sense for them to shell out the $$ to get a new tv
it might be, but we currently lack the research to know if it would be benenficial to do so... since the last super volcanoe eruption corisponds with a large number of species extintions in the fossil record... well, you'd really want to be sure drilling into yellowstone to relieve pressure is really the best solution. The pocket of high pressure magma has raised the surface in parts of yellostone by several inches in the past few decades. based on existing geological evidence that means yellowstone will erupt sometimes in the next 10,000 years.
you don't seem to understant what i was getting at ^^; i was saying that if you were boring into a zit that WAS forming, and would eventually (in say 10,000 years) 'pop' (super volcanoe here not your run of the mill thing) like say the one under yellostone national park, that one might prematurly trigger an eruption that was in the process of forming, but i still went over the top in terms of the effects, i guess that just qualifies me for a job in the media or as a hollywood script writer;)
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i know you meant to be funny but most of what's on that list read a lot more like the 'best inventions of 1995' than of 2005... i mean my 6 year old TV set has front side inputs... as does my 8 year old vcr... and ten the 'free domain name' haha I had free domain name hosting for the blog i ran in 1999...
what will they invent in 2006 to top this list the Wheel? Sliced bread? maybe Color Television? no no i know They'll invent Fire!
pay 1000$ for a desktop computer so that their kids can stay competitive.
;)
I can configure a 64-bit processor based system with totally basic functionality for $300 (linux) or $379 (legitimate windows XP)
So the question begs to be asked, why would somone making $5 a day, pay $1,000 for a 'gaming' pc, when a perfectly legit 'educational use' pc can be configured for $700 less? plus the kid gets the 'learning' experience of putting the parts together
I can configure a 32-bit system for even less, but then your kids aren't going to be learning how to code 64-bit apps (although if you just want them to learn basic computer skills, a 32-bit system will work fine)
unless of course you plan on sending your kid along the path of being a pro gamer, there is no reason to drop a 'grand' on a pc for educational use.
Las vegas has done better than that... when was the last time you saw a slot machine or table game that was 'too hard' to leanr how to play in 5 minutes or less?
so, by simply making the games simple, they attract a wider audience to wager and (mostly) loose money to the casinos...
clearly to come to that number they're calculating $1 for every mp3 traded over kazza, emule etc... and $20 for every movie over said p2p services...
i can't imagine a better way to 'inflate' the dollar value of 'cybercrime' than to include the 'data sharing' crimes, which steal only 'potential' earnings, mostly from people who would have sacraficed on other manufactured goods etc if they had bought said material.
you might as well take netflix profit, inflate it by 20, and say that's what netflix has cost the movie studios by making it super easy to watch dvds at home.
the point is that someone could take the netzero buisness plan, and make a scam based company that instead of 'installing' just a simple ad banner installed a data mining tool so they could scam everyone at once out of loads of cash. the problem isn't with netzero, just the fact that a legitimitabe buisness started out with a 'too good to be true' model and wound up with way more customers than they could realistically provide service for for the ad revenues they had.. well.. it shows how easily some scammer could Start up a scam site that seemed on the face of things to be legitimate... and wound up wiping out peoples checking accounts etc...
:p
i never liked capitilization rules
and sadly, the average american idiot can easily see a 40k a year income, and easily see quadruple that in credit limit with about 15-25 credit card offers... 'a fool and his money are soon parted' has never been more true. heck even a 'intelligent' person can be suckered in with a plausible pitch you pay $15 to be 'included' in a special survey group, whhere you fill out market surveys and recieve $1-2 per survey filled out, the '$15' membership fee to filter out 'rif raff' so as to attract more 'marketers' seems like it could ve a viable and realistic marketing company, only it turns out that the first 'batch' are paid with the money they 'paid' to the company, and not given more than a few surveys and when they give 'good' feedback on said site, massive more suckers come in, and then the place rakes in enough cash closes shop, and no-one ever sees their $15 memberships except the 'first' thousand or so... and the next 20-50 thousand all their cash is just taken to parts unknown... 300k to 750k in 'easy' money :/ if you bother to mail out fake checks you can keep the operation running a month or two longer than if you simply stop offering 'surveys' and possibly fool enough people to get a quick million... basically any offer that asks for money up front is probably a scam, even if they're only asking $10-$15 sometimes they make the offers sound almost too plausable.. 'install our adbar, get paid to surf the web' meanwhile their adbar includes a keylogger and phishing toolkit to data mine you for access to bank accounts etc, so they can clean you out in one fell swoop...
remember, Netzero started off offering 'free' dialup access with 'ad' banners... and they were perfectilly legitimate... so it's possible for some clever scam artists to come up with reasonable or realistic sounding 'scams' that act like a legit business for weeks or months before they 'become' a bogus scam that trys to clean out a lot of unsuspecting people for millions...
the only multiple agp device motherboards on the market (period) are Integrated Graphic solutions boards that include an AGP slot...
so i don't see how 'allowing multiple agp slots' was the major draw of agp 8x when there are not even any legacy products currently on the market that support this mythical 'dual slot' agp setup.
the current state of the industry is that agp graphic cards are as big a plague as normal PCI cards were when agp adoption was in it's early days. eventually budget cards and remnants will be then entire agp market segment... the only selling point of an agp card is that one can get a $40 socket 754 motherboard, and a $60 'semptron' cpu, and have a system fully capable of playing even the best system killers when paired with a 6600GT and 2 GB of system ram... total cost for such a 'budget' gamer system might run one oh, $600+ not bad for a system that can run Doom 3 at 1280x1024 4xfsaa at a playable 40 fps... but as i've said, the price diff in the pcie card is more than enough to make one want the $550+ 'pcie' version of the 'budget' gamer. even if the motherboard cost more than double the price, the graphic card was cheaper enough to more than break even. unless of course someone has a legacy agp card they want to 'milk' for a few more years, there really isn't a good reason to buy an agp based system for anyone considering playing games, now or in the future.
Like it or not, AGP is really the standard for video expansion right now.
sorry to nit pick, but AGP is dead, for the latest and greatest the AGP and PCI Express version of the same card, and the AGP version costs $150 more. you can buy a Very nice motherboard for that price difference....
AGP is a legacy product, in it's death throes. the cards require more circuitry, and they cost more. buying a motherbord with an agp slot relegates you to obsolete (or budget) 2005 model cards or paying a super premium on the high end 2006 cards.
Why? because you can only have 1 AGP slot in a mother board, you can have 4 PCIEx16 slots, and still keep slotfans below them.. like it or not PCI Express x16 is here to stay, and agp is going the way of the dinosaur it was.
there may not be a 'real world performance' issue between the two technologies, until you put a pair of gt7800's in SLI mode... or a pair of radeon X1800's in crossfire mode... then you see why agp is dead and dying.
'services' is not ip royalties is ip. 'servicees' is everything from making beds, to cooking tacos, basicially anything that isn't manufacture or royalties or agraculture...
Now i realize some IP winds up being sold as a 'service' or winds up being reproted as a 'manufactured good' because the person who owns said ip isn't selling or renting it to others... but the 'services' category IS not the same thing as IP. and MOST of that category is stuff that Has Almost Nothing To do with IP.
First off lets go myth busting your arguments.
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1. IP the biggest export.
http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/usfth/agg
Fact, IP was the Number 4 export for the united states in 2004.
and at about 7.5% of our total exports, it wasn't aa huge a player as you made it out to be.
2. It's one of the reasons why we're one of the richest nations on the planet
BS, we're rich because a. america had vast untapped resources and still widely under utilized natural resource bases b. america stole virtually every piece of technology they could to 'build' their industrial base and c. no major wars rased any of our industrial complexs.
3. it's a major factor in the quality of life we enjoy.
Actually the ammount of profit made off 'ideas' has almost no correlation to qquality of life what so ever. there are a lot of important factors, but frankly ip centric societies (the UK) have managed to prosper with tight IP laws, and 'historically lax' IP nations as the US have also prospered... IP laws come in so late in the equasion that they can't really change a whole lot about an economy...
4. It's no coincidence that countries which don't pay much bother to the Berne Convention and other similar international agreements are by and large shitty places to live.
others called BS on this already, for 103 years the US refused to sign said convention. the entire decade 'of greed' occured before said convention was signed in the US.
A computer is a computer regardless of the parts
I understand what you're saying, but technically, you're saying GE would also go into the list of tier 1 computer assembler makers who don't pay a MS tax, afterall they ship millions of miroprocessorer controlled microwave ovens. a computer is a computer after all.
Computers are IDEAL assitive technology for the deaf-blind. they open up a whole new world for deaf blind individuals, because now they can communicate and interact and be treated just like any other annonymous coward on the internet. there are enough companies making or trying to improve existing technologies, and it's true the deaf-blind are limited to the functionality of a command-line/keyboard shortcut/macro/script based interface, but as many slashdot readers can tell you the power and functionality of a command line interface is not to be dismissed.
some of the ideas are pretty good, optional text riddle captchas, an 800 number that works with TDD, or even an e-mail form that is 'spam filtered' to filter out massive 'bot' requests...
Like it's true that the 'deafblind' are about 0.04% of the population, statistically, but on a world with 6 billion people that's over 2.4 million deaf-blind persons globally.. 2.4 million people who prior to computers were 'difficult' to communicate with, but now they could very well be posting messages on message boards around the internet, intentionally not telling anyone because on the internet no-one knows they're deaf-blind...
http://www.seattlelighthouse.org/fact_sheets/
They should at least recommend a specific product, else the remaining OS/2 userbase will entirely fragment.
What, both of them?
What there was two? I thought they were worried about the creating a case of MPD where by the last user of os/2 warp fragmented into different personalities, each of whome had a linux distro of choice.
720p is less likely to "pixelate" in high motion.
There is the trick, what most people don't realize is that 1080i is actually only able to capture motion at 15 fps. because at 30 fps, 15 are the a frames, and 15 are the b frames. The reason Motion pictures worked so well with 24fps is because movies have alwys used a 'progressive' display technology.
There is also a 1080p format, but unless you pay as much on a tv set as a car, you won't be getting one of those (unless it's a PC monitor) anytime soon. Since almost nothing is shot in 1080p (except star wars, episode III) you won't be getting that much content unless you decide to pay as much as some people would spend on a house on a 1080p digital camera system.
Now I don't know this for certain, but i suspect that sporting events are actually shot at much higher than broadcast frame rates to facilitate the 'instant replay' they are usually showing them at 1/8th or 1/16th speed.. simply shooting at 60fps would double the quality of the 'instant' replay, if they aren't currently doing so. and thus now you know why all sporting events are fillmed in progressive scan, and why we as consumers should REJECT inferior 1080i native sets.
What website with content for deaf-blind (_only_ text) would require registration to retrieve such information?
I was thinking of such uncommon sites as slashdot.org (low karma users had manditory captchas to post, and they still may have random/anti flood ones) or perhaps Google.com's blogger.com which requires a captcha for every comment. I was also thiking of e-mail signups at yahoo.com hotmail.com mail.com etc. Anyone at anytime could loose both their hearing and their vision, either from infection, or repeated damage to the eyes and ears from say, deafeningly loud music and intensely bright lighting/lasers etc.
As rare as it is that a person is born deaf and blind, or becomes deaf and blind in childhood or adulthood it Does happen, often enough that companies interacting with millions of customers need to think about easy, affordable solutions to accomodate people unfortunate enough to lack both vision and hearing. some of the solutions people have thought of are really quite simple, so it seems quite disturbing to me that the last i checked of the major free webmail sites only mail.com seems to have a link for the disabled to go to to assist in signing up for webmail.
what i find more ironic is that my mom tried to install 'drivers' for a wireless usb keyboard and mouse, and made them unusable (they 3rd party drivers actually forze her system up) when they worked fine without any 'propriety drivers' under windows xp. of course, she couldn't find the signal calibration button on the bottom of the keyboard/mouse either. when a king kong sized _4_ page (2 pages in english, 2 pages in spanish) instruction manual walked you through step by step.
it's amazing that people can't read 2 pieces of paper to be bothered to get something working. i guess that's why most people consider mastering the 'play' and 'rewind' buttons on a vcr as an acheivment.
well i'm pretty sure that you get all those channels for $45 a month with satelite tv, although you pay $5 a month extra per tv... cable companies wish they could charge $5 a month more per tv, but since they can't they set their prices according to demographics.
well in this case it was looking for soething that Wasn't patented yet, if you're turning up 100 results for the keywoard, you could say 'yup, it's patented' just by guessing that with 100 patents at least one will infringe on the idea... if you get 0 matches then hey 'it's patentable!'
;)
a little something we call 'fuzzy logic'
no, you have to lock the door, and then have key set right beside it with a note saying 'not for use in door' thus they've 'broken' your encryption by using the key in the lock.
fuel economy isn't enough what we need are carbon neutral power sources. some people are trying to do that by making companies that provide carbon neutral fuel but we've got a long way to go, trying to 'preach' people into using more efficient equipment is not nearly as effective as trying to promote and support the development of companies that actually give people a REAL solution that replaces the carbon dioxide increasing fuels we use now.
or developers could simply have the keyboard layout be a simple text file that anyone can edit. not that hard, allow multiple keypress combos be assigned to a single key, and bam people can maybe remap the layouts to work better for them. a lot of games have that kind of functionality... it's not hard to implement, and potentially opens your product to use by slower, disabled people.
you're missing the point, building more industy in nations that are 'less developed' increases their productive capabilities, and thus the 'wealth' (which is really just a measure of the global productive capability) but 'free trade' only 'creates' or contributes to wealth when it allows people to work harder doing what they enjoy, and having what they produce exported to markets where it's desireble to import those goods.
the only monitary sense where free trade 'creates' wealth is the aspect to which the government is not confiscating wealth simply to prop up artificially high prices.
we're working from a finite resource base with a lot of wildcards like how 'motivated' and 'inspired' one nations work force is to work hard for the same compensation. economies are limited in their growth by technologies to better exploit the finite resource base we have.
What parent meant is right now the 'hot' market is to go in and develop less developed nations(in this case by exporting jobs, which increases the money flowing into the local economy, which leads to the formation of a middle class, who create a need for a working class to sustain the 'middle class lifestyle' etc.. increasing economic growth rapidly) in an effort to find increasing bottom lines and greater profits etc. once every nation has been as technologically developed as it can be, there is no more room for 'expansive' growth, barring improved technologies.
although arguably if you consder post war japan, ceompletely rebuilding an industrial base leads to a vast leap in productive efficiency until the equipment and locations begin to wear down again.
you know some people are still using black and white tv sets.
but seriously the 1950's called they want their 'color tv's are too expensive' bit back.
HDtv will continue to grow, people don't always wait for stuff to break to replace it, they wait until it makes sense for them to shell out the $$ to get a new tv
it might be, but we currently lack the research to know if it would be benenficial to do so... since the last super volcanoe eruption corisponds with a large number of species extintions in the fossil record... well, you'd really want to be sure drilling into yellowstone to relieve pressure is really the best solution. The pocket of high pressure magma has raised the surface in parts of yellostone by several inches in the past few decades.
based on existing geological evidence that means yellowstone will erupt sometimes in the next 10,000 years.
you don't seem to understant what i was getting at ^^; i was saying that if you were boring into a zit that WAS forming, and would eventually (in say 10,000 years) 'pop' (super volcanoe here not your run of the mill thing) like say the one under yellostone national park, that one might prematurly trigger an eruption that was in the process of forming, but i still went over the top in terms of the effects, i guess that just qualifies me for a job in the media or as a hollywood script writer ;)