What if a criminal escaped onto the street where your brick-and-mortar shop was located, and they closed down a several-block radius for as long as it took to find him? You think they should compensate all the businesses that were affected?
It's a shot in a million, but if it happens we're toast. I'd like to know that there's a backup plan.
Granted, most space-based weaponry capable of taking out an asteroid would also be pretty effective against ground targets, or other countries' ballistic missiles.
There are no spelling mistakes. There's one period missing. Technically, one sentence could be punctuated differently. What's your point? You're the one who typed "talk" two times in a row.
The horrible spelling would definitely force me to buy a new AMD processor.
I already have a few, though. It's really grating to be in computer shop and hear the salesman talking to someone who asked about AMD, and he goes on a rambling vague litany about how Intel has stability, and faster clock speeds It makes me wonder why I'm even in that computer store. I use a 2.66 GHz P4 at work, and it's slower than my 1.2GHz Athlon at home.
Am I dreaming? This is like something from the dotcom boomtimes when an idea got more money for seeming wacky and apparently useless.
Human don't use smell very much, anymore. For the most part, it's just figuring out whether the milk is OK to drink, or if the person next to you needs a bath. There are subconscious pheromonal responses, but hopefully they aren't loading this thing up with those. "Yes sir, we discovered the 'buy stuff' pheromone."
Three hundred bucks to have a machine spray a grocery-aisle's worth of air fresheners.
Maybe if we were as smell-focused as dogs, we'd be able to use this as a form of output. HEY! You could assign words different mixes of smells, and train your dog to delete spam!
Ok, now guess who the government would put in charge of implementing this postage system? The U.S. Postal Service has lots of experience with postage...I'm willing to bet they'd get the job.
So, watch as they slap on a small postage fee per email. And then, mark my words, watch them offer a bulk rate for large mailings, just as they do now with snail mail.;) It's too evil to not happen.
Of course it's fractured English. I'm a fellow Grammar Nazi. *secret handshake* My comment was comparing the sentence structure to Reverse Polish Notation, not standard English.
I was saying similar things when I was eight. I knew I was going to be an engineer. I got books and learned from them, and experimented with electronics even though I didn't have enough money to buy expensive test equipment. Now that I have graduated from college, it's very difficult to find any work.
Can you look back at the me of 16 years ago, poring over the guts of an old alarm clock trying to figure out how it works, and begrudge me my living?
I had a regular laptop in college, and there were power cords and network ports at every desk in most of the classrooms. I think everyone initially tried to take notes with their computer, but it's really difficult to keep up. The reason? In engineering classes, there are LOTS of diagrams, formulas, things whipped out on the whiteboard that would take half an hour to painstaking craft out of lines and arcs on a computer.
I think that for most non-engineering classes, the disadvantages of a tablet outweigh the advantages. But if I'd had a tablet in school, this is what I'd do: get a graph paper background for the note-taking application, or even use XFig if the stylus works, draw the diagrams and formulas, caption the diagrams with typed notes, and type any notes required. I can type a lot faster than I can write, but on a computer I can't draw as fast as I can on paper.
There was one kid who used Maple for everything, even notes in non-engineering classes. He'd type everything out and when he needed a diagram he'd jump into Paintbrush, draw the picture, and paste it into Maple. He was so fast that he could actually keep up with the teacher this way.
My method was to have my pad of engineering paper right next to the laptop keyboard. I'd type notes into a text editor, and switch over to the paper when I needed to draw a schematic or formula. At the top of every page I would have the day's date and the class, and every formula and graphic would have a reference number. I'd put this reference number in my text notes so I'd know what went where. It's probably the best solution, because you can have a laptop that doesn't compromise in order to fit in the tablet features. Unless you scan in the graphics, though, you can't have the notes all in one place.
To me, it seems that the ability to directly sketch images into the computer would be extremely useful for the types of things I needed to do in college. However, I don't know if it would really work; maybe the resolution isn't high enough, or the pen is too slow, or something. Probably, if you look at many of the other posts here.
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It's a perfectly valid assumption on the government's part that people will be running some form of Windows, as that is the majority operating system. Why should the government spend my tax dollars duplicating their work, for a vast minority of computer users? Eventually that might become necessary, but it really isn't right now.
The difference is that speeding 100mph is not you being annoying, it's you breaking a law. As for cell phones in inappropriate places, some states already have laws prohibiting use in vehicles without a hands-free option. Cell phones and other transmitters are also illegal in sensitive areas such as hospitals, demolition areas, and airplanes.
I'm not going to glare at you as if you just clubbed a baby seal if you're talking on your cell phone; why should you annoy me by acting obnoxious when I'm trying to have a conversation that is identical to any other conversation except the other person is not physically present?
Actually, you can do this with PDF. Adobe's document reader allows you to fill in fields and save the modified document.
And...sorry...but Linux is not a popular OS yet. Maybe for servers, but I guarantee that 90% of even Slashdot readers don't use Linux as their primary desktop, or at least have a Windows box as well. Regardless of whether it is right for Microsoft to have a stranglehold on the market, the fact is that THEY DO.
Look, you can't go back and CHANGE YOUR POINT after I responded to it, and then beat me up because my response doesn't cover the altered version of what you said. You said that people had to buy software to read documents in Microsoft formats, and I said "no, there are free readers." You can't just wave a shiny object around and say "Butbutbut you can't WRITE those formats, then!"
If there is interactive work, then the people on the outside can communicate with their contacts in the government, right? And if they don't have Word, and don't want to buy it, they can ask files to be sent in RTF. Admittedly not an ideal situation, but then again I was responding to your post stating there was no free way to read Office documents, not to write them.
But there's lots of other arguments you can make like that...supposing the the government wanted to send you a file, edit it, and send it back...but you didn't have a computer at all? You'd have to buy your own computer! And internet service! The government also, in most states, requires you to have auto insurance...but it's not free!
In any case, there IS OpenOffice, which in most cases CAN read and write Office documents. Typically I find that the extent of government document interaction is me downloading something in PDF, printing it out, and sending it in...but if the President wants to bounce a Word document back and forth with you and make some national policy, then OpenOffice might do what you need.
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What if a criminal escaped onto the street where your brick-and-mortar shop was located, and they closed down a several-block radius for as long as it took to find him? You think they should compensate all the businesses that were affected?
It's a shot in a million, but if it happens we're toast. I'd like to know that there's a backup plan.
Granted, most space-based weaponry capable of taking out an asteroid would also be pretty effective against ground targets, or other countries' ballistic missiles.
That's where the period should have been.
There are no spelling mistakes. There's one period missing. Technically, one sentence could be punctuated differently. What's your point? You're the one who typed "talk" two times in a row.
The horrible spelling would definitely force me to buy a new AMD processor.
I already have a few, though. It's really grating to be in computer shop and hear the salesman talking to someone who asked about AMD, and he goes on a rambling vague litany about how Intel has stability, and faster clock speeds It makes me wonder why I'm even in that computer store. I use a 2.66 GHz P4 at work, and it's slower than my 1.2GHz Athlon at home.
All I know is that if someone wants to get me away from Google at this point, they'll have to come up with an anonymous 12-step program.
1. Lenses are mammals.
2. Lenses refract ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the lens is to flip out and bend light.
Well, I don't know about you, but I don't eat my email. Something about how the fork scratches off all the anti-glare coating on my monitor.
It means they really are living in a past where such a device has not already failed.
Am I dreaming? This is like something from the dotcom boomtimes when an idea got more money for seeming wacky and apparently useless.
Human don't use smell very much, anymore. For the most part, it's just figuring out whether the milk is OK to drink, or if the person next to you needs a bath. There are subconscious pheromonal responses, but hopefully they aren't loading this thing up with those. "Yes sir, we discovered the 'buy stuff' pheromone."
Three hundred bucks to have a machine spray a grocery-aisle's worth of air fresheners.
Maybe if we were as smell-focused as dogs, we'd be able to use this as a form of output. HEY! You could assign words different mixes of smells, and train your dog to delete spam!
Yup.
;) It's too evil to not happen.
Ok, now guess who the government would put in charge of implementing this postage system? The U.S. Postal Service has lots of experience with postage...I'm willing to bet they'd get the job.
So, watch as they slap on a small postage fee per email. And then, mark my words, watch them offer a bulk rate for large mailings, just as they do now with snail mail.
Right, I'd gladly accept a few marketing emails a day from some companies related to my field of work, or my favorite leisure time activities.
As it stands, the Viagra and diet pill spams don't really apply to either of those areas....
Of course it's fractured English. I'm a fellow Grammar Nazi. *secret handshake* My comment was comparing the sentence structure to Reverse Polish Notation, not standard English.
No no, you ended the sentence with a preposition. A more accurate phrasing would be:
"Reverse Polish Notation, in which he speaks."
I was saying similar things when I was eight. I knew I was going to be an engineer. I got books and learned from them, and experimented with electronics even though I didn't have enough money to buy expensive test equipment. Now that I have graduated from college, it's very difficult to find any work.
Can you look back at the me of 16 years ago, poring over the guts of an old alarm clock trying to figure out how it works, and begrudge me my living?
This just goes to show that even the most mundane anecdote becomes funny if someone named "Carl" is in it.
I had a regular laptop in college, and there were power cords and network ports at every desk in most of the classrooms. I think everyone initially tried to take notes with their computer, but it's really difficult to keep up. The reason? In engineering classes, there are LOTS of diagrams, formulas, things whipped out on the whiteboard that would take half an hour to painstaking craft out of lines and arcs on a computer.
I think that for most non-engineering classes, the disadvantages of a tablet outweigh the advantages. But if I'd had a tablet in school, this is what I'd do: get a graph paper background for the note-taking application, or even use XFig if the stylus works, draw the diagrams and formulas, caption the diagrams with typed notes, and type any notes required. I can type a lot faster than I can write, but on a computer I can't draw as fast as I can on paper.
There was one kid who used Maple for everything, even notes in non-engineering classes. He'd type everything out and when he needed a diagram he'd jump into Paintbrush, draw the picture, and paste it into Maple. He was so fast that he could actually keep up with the teacher this way.
My method was to have my pad of engineering paper right next to the laptop keyboard. I'd type notes into a text editor, and switch over to the paper when I needed to draw a schematic or formula. At the top of every page I would have the day's date and the class, and every formula and graphic would have a reference number. I'd put this reference number in my text notes so I'd know what went where. It's probably the best solution, because you can have a laptop that doesn't compromise in order to fit in the tablet features. Unless you scan in the graphics, though, you can't have the notes all in one place.
To me, it seems that the ability to directly sketch images into the computer would be extremely useful for the types of things I needed to do in college. However, I don't know if it would really work; maybe the resolution isn't high enough, or the pen is too slow, or something. Probably, if you look at many of the other posts here.
More likely:
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"I'm king of the food chain!"
When you have electronically-triggered blasting devices in an area, you want to remove as many possible EMI sources as possible.
It's a perfectly valid assumption on the government's part that people will be running some form of Windows, as that is the majority operating system. Why should the government spend my tax dollars duplicating their work, for a vast minority of computer users? Eventually that might become necessary, but it really isn't right now.
The difference is that speeding 100mph is not you being annoying, it's you breaking a law. As for cell phones in inappropriate places, some states already have laws prohibiting use in vehicles without a hands-free option. Cell phones and other transmitters are also illegal in sensitive areas such as hospitals, demolition areas, and airplanes.
I'm not going to glare at you as if you just clubbed a baby seal if you're talking on your cell phone; why should you annoy me by acting obnoxious when I'm trying to have a conversation that is identical to any other conversation except the other person is not physically present?
Meh, I was mostly wrong...I did it a long time ago, and what I did was print to a Postscript file and then convert back to PDF with Ghostscript.
Actually, you can do this with PDF. Adobe's document reader allows you to fill in fields and save the modified document.
And...sorry...but Linux is not a popular OS yet. Maybe for servers, but I guarantee that 90% of even Slashdot readers don't use Linux as their primary desktop, or at least have a Windows box as well. Regardless of whether it is right for Microsoft to have a stranglehold on the market, the fact is that THEY DO.
Look, you can't go back and CHANGE YOUR POINT after I responded to it, and then beat me up because my response doesn't cover the altered version of what you said. You said that people had to buy software to read documents in Microsoft formats, and I said "no, there are free readers." You can't just wave a shiny object around and say "Butbutbut you can't WRITE those formats, then!"
If there is interactive work, then the people on the outside can communicate with their contacts in the government, right? And if they don't have Word, and don't want to buy it, they can ask files to be sent in RTF. Admittedly not an ideal situation, but then again I was responding to your post stating there was no free way to read Office documents, not to write them.
But there's lots of other arguments you can make like that...supposing the the government wanted to send you a file, edit it, and send it back...but you didn't have a computer at all? You'd have to buy your own computer! And internet service! The government also, in most states, requires you to have auto insurance...but it's not free!
In any case, there IS OpenOffice, which in most cases CAN read and write Office documents. Typically I find that the extent of government document interaction is me downloading something in PDF, printing it out, and sending it in...but if the President wants to bounce a Word document back and forth with you and make some national policy, then OpenOffice might do what you need.