Xeni Jardin (of BoingBoing and NPR fame) reported on this a few months ago. The pictures of the plane are good, but the control equipment is even more so.
The new Netscape will not make it as a portal because they aren't aiming at any particular demographic (I can't believe I just used that word in a sentence). They seem to be abandoning the tech-savvy, intelligent for a younger, broader audience, but they aren't flashy and fun enough to entertain a generation trained to change focus and subject every 30 seconds. Customizable portals have already been done (Google, Yahoo, etc), and while they're great for news, stocks, whatever, they aren't great for building a feeling of community. A more static front page will get you a more homogenous readership, but the content must be active, funny, trendy, and engaging in a way that the intellectual and geek crowd have never really understood.
Frankly, the Netscape name brand is probably not a good choice for this. I've never understood why the Netscape website has always been stretched so far beyond its original use. Netscape was a browser, not a portal, and as much as you try to make it otherwise, Netscape.com still just a place to get an alternative browser (it's just harder to find the link nowdays).
" "You don't have to work _ but if you want to work for a company you have to have a Social Security card," he said. "The difference is, in the day and age when everybody's got a PC on their desk with Photoshop that can replicate anything, it's become a joke."
So rather than make the cards harder to forge, he tries to solve the stated problem by proposing we give the government our most detailed personal information and trust that they will never use it for purposes outside their stated goal. My favorite part of the article is that he is apparently qualified to make this type of statement because he is a successful businessman.
Hey, Bloomberg. I'm just a normal guy, but that doesn't invalidate my opinion that your idea sucks.
Some of us are. I think a huge percentage of the US public is just getting used to the idea that Bush isn't great, his policies are questionable at best, and that the rest of our government is rapidly becoming as bad as the ones they're trying to replace. Those people will probably take awhile to actually get off the fence and raise their voice.
That's in the Blue States. Here in the heart of Bushland (Houston, TX), you can get your teeth knocked out for criticising our President too loudly. It's difficult to get your point across to people who get all of their information from FOX News, and write you off as nuts the moment they realize what you're saying.
There are people trying to do something about this mess. Tom Delay has been effectively removed from power, Cindy Sheehan parked herself on Bush's doorstep for weeks, and I have a feeling the Hispanic population isn't very pleased with our current government right now, and will probably turn out to vote in massive numbers, with or without formal organization.
Even in the middle of a Red State, Americans are slowly changing their minds. I can't imagine what it looks like outside the US looking in, but I assure you we're not all sitting idly by watching our rights slip away.
First of all, how is a self-heating coffee can related to IT? I'm not sure I see where the Information part of IT is at in this instance.
..."A recall has been announced -- here's hoping the flaws can be 'patched' soon."
Why? The first time I saw one of these, I thought it was pretty cool. Then I saw how much of the can is comprised of chemicals used to heat the coffee. It looks like half the volume of the can is contained in the chemical pouch, which seems a little excessive. This is not good technology. Until they can find a way to be a little less wasteful to do the same job, I hope they don't patch the problem.
social, security, privacy, and health risks associated with this?
I say do it. Privacy/security shouldn't be a problem for the time being, as there aren't that many RFID readers out there, and as long as no one knows what is attached to that ID, I can't see how it can be useful to anyone but you. I don't see any social impact either, aside from anyone who might be freaked out by your lights turning on and off as you walk from room to room in your house. I'm not qualified to say anything about the health risks, but I think that might be cause for worry.
Frankly, I think your biggest problem will be functionality. There's a very good chance you're going to have this thing implanted inside you, and it isn't going to work the way you envisioned. What's the point of having the lights turn on when you walk in the door if you have to repeatedly wave your implanted arm in front of the RFID sensor on the wall where the light switch used to be? Being on the bleeding edge is fun until you discover the bugs. But then, that's part of the fun of the bleeding edge.
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The author was obviously not a Biology major. They've based their whole article on a mixed metaphor:
"What naysayers don't understand is that the DNA of the Google brand is unlike anything ever seen in the modern market landscape. Google is actually the first company with a brand that is built entirely of stem cells: able to grow and develop into whatever form it sees fit."
I'm not really sure what DNA has to do with stem cells in this sense. The first sentence implies we're going to hear about Google's "parents", perhaps the companies the employees worked at before coming to Google. The following sentence about stem cells is comlpetely unrelated, as DNA isn't really what makes stem cells interesting, especially not in this case.
I know it's kind of nitpicky, but frankly it's annoying to see this kind of stuff when the audience is relatively scientifically well-versed, at least compared to the general public.
Would anyone like to bet on whether or not those 2000 users were given local admin rights on their boxes? Stop running everything as admin and your problems disappear (or at least get a lot smaller).
That means I can get buff by tilting the foot of the bed 6 degrees down!!!! This is going to be awesome!!! No more splindly arms and legs. I'm going to get built just by laying around in bed all day drinking protein shakes.
"...the Everglide s-500 also supplies the user with pinpoint precision from where the sound is coming, being accurate to the pixel from where a footstep or a gunshot is coming."
What does this mean? Accurate to the pixel? These are just headphones, not a 20-speaker surround system. This whole review is written this way.
"In fact, making the speaker driver very sensible to minimal audio response resulted in this Headphone to lack in Bass audio quality."
Not only did the author use "sensible" instead of "sensitive", they also make an erroneous connection between the speaker sensitivity and bass response. In fact, it appears that the author doesn't understand speaker sensitivity. The speakers are supposed to be super-lightweight, so they make sounds faster than regular speakers, so no one can sneak up on you in a game. The result of this is apparently the lack of Bass (why the caps?). Both of those statements make absolutely no sense.
This review is nothing but a VERY poorly written ad. If you're going to post ads on Salshdot, Taco, at least read the damn things first.
Gates is right. Don't give them some tiny, barely functional laptop. Give them one with a big screen to display the Blue Screen of Death. That will allow them to experience the 21st Century like the rest of us.
He calls the Western press "irresponsible" and says that the hoax was designed "to give foreign media a lesson that Chinese affairs are not always the way you think."
Yeah right. The guy intentionally feeds incorrect information to the outside world, then blames everyone for interpreting it incorrectly? Great logic skills, buddy.
Given his statement, apparently all of those censorship and freedom of speech problems don't exist. Move along, nothing to see here.
I can't speak for your system, but most people wildly over-estimate their power supply needs. Couple that with the fact that this product is aimed at a fairly small segment of the computing population who will go as far as to underclock their processors to make their computer quieter, and you see why it's still relevant.
I find it interesting that Googling Light Blue Optics yields not one picture of this device in action. They have a photoshopped mock-up image showing a full-color display that's misleading at best, but that's it. It's nice that it's the size of a matchbox, but if you can't take a single picture of it in action, what's the use.
I think this study is correct in instances where the parties don't know each other well (or at all). I think the percentages go up considerably for pairs of users who know each other and interact outside of email.
Slashdot doesn't use photos, but they often quote a few lines from the articles. Often enough that almost no one RTFA. Looks like the newspaper industry is about as forward-looking as the RIAA and MPAA. This whole Inter-Net thing apparently caught them off guard and they've just noticed it.
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Xeni Jardin (of BoingBoing and NPR fame) reported on this a few months ago. The pictures of the plane are good, but the control equipment is even more so.
Frankly, the Netscape name brand is probably not a good choice for this. I've never understood why the Netscape website has always been stretched so far beyond its original use. Netscape was a browser, not a portal, and as much as you try to make it otherwise, Netscape.com still just a place to get an alternative browser (it's just harder to find the link nowdays).
I hope that machine downloads songs into too, or that's still going to be one boring plane ride.
So rather than make the cards harder to forge, he tries to solve the stated problem by proposing we give the government our most detailed personal information and trust that they will never use it for purposes outside their stated goal. My favorite part of the article is that he is apparently qualified to make this type of statement because he is a successful businessman.
Hey, Bloomberg. I'm just a normal guy, but that doesn't invalidate my opinion that your idea sucks.
Use all the Microsoft DRM you'd like, I'm not buying that device.
That's in the Blue States. Here in the heart of Bushland (Houston, TX), you can get your teeth knocked out for criticising our President too loudly. It's difficult to get your point across to people who get all of their information from FOX News, and write you off as nuts the moment they realize what you're saying.
There are people trying to do something about this mess. Tom Delay has been effectively removed from power, Cindy Sheehan parked herself on Bush's doorstep for weeks, and I have a feeling the Hispanic population isn't very pleased with our current government right now, and will probably turn out to vote in massive numbers, with or without formal organization.
Even in the middle of a Red State, Americans are slowly changing their minds. I can't imagine what it looks like outside the US looking in, but I assure you we're not all sitting idly by watching our rights slip away.
"Look, those stupid pink animals with the low voices are finally learning how to talk!"
Wahahahahahahaha!!!!!!11
He obviously doesn't understand the meaning of ironic.
Why? The first time I saw one of these, I thought it was pretty cool. Then I saw how much of the can is comprised of chemicals used to heat the coffee. It looks like half the volume of the can is contained in the chemical pouch, which seems a little excessive. This is not good technology. Until they can find a way to be a little less wasteful to do the same job, I hope they don't patch the problem.
Frankly, I think your biggest problem will be functionality. There's a very good chance you're going to have this thing implanted inside you, and it isn't going to work the way you envisioned. What's the point of having the lights turn on when you walk in the door if you have to repeatedly wave your implanted arm in front of the RFID sensor on the wall where the light switch used to be? Being on the bleeding edge is fun until you discover the bugs. But then, that's part of the fun of the bleeding edge.
"What naysayers don't understand is that the DNA of the Google brand is unlike anything ever seen in the modern market landscape. Google is actually the first company with a brand that is built entirely of stem cells: able to grow and develop into whatever form it sees fit."
I'm not really sure what DNA has to do with stem cells in this sense. The first sentence implies we're going to hear about Google's "parents", perhaps the companies the employees worked at before coming to Google. The following sentence about stem cells is comlpetely unrelated, as DNA isn't really what makes stem cells interesting, especially not in this case.
I know it's kind of nitpicky, but frankly it's annoying to see this kind of stuff when the audience is relatively scientifically well-versed, at least compared to the general public.
At one second per picture, my funeral would be approximately 3 days long. Even I couldn't sit through that, and it's my porn!
Would anyone like to bet on whether or not those 2000 users were given local admin rights on their boxes? Stop running everything as admin and your problems disappear (or at least get a lot smaller).
That means I can get buff by tilting the foot of the bed 6 degrees down!!!! This is going to be awesome!!! No more splindly arms and legs. I'm going to get built just by laying around in bed all day drinking protein shakes.
What does this mean? Accurate to the pixel? These are just headphones, not a 20-speaker surround system. This whole review is written this way.
"In fact, making the speaker driver very sensible to minimal audio response resulted in this Headphone to lack in Bass audio quality."
Not only did the author use "sensible" instead of "sensitive", they also make an erroneous connection between the speaker sensitivity and bass response. In fact, it appears that the author doesn't understand speaker sensitivity. The speakers are supposed to be super-lightweight, so they make sounds faster than regular speakers, so no one can sneak up on you in a game. The result of this is apparently the lack of Bass (why the caps?). Both of those statements make absolutely no sense.
This review is nothing but a VERY poorly written ad. If you're going to post ads on Salshdot, Taco, at least read the damn things first.
Gates is right. Don't give them some tiny, barely functional laptop. Give them one with a big screen to display the Blue Screen of Death. That will allow them to experience the 21st Century like the rest of us.
Ack! Before someone else points it out, I just noticed I misspelled the word "too". In a sentence questioning someone else's intelligence, no less :)
Yeah right. The guy intentionally feeds incorrect information to the outside world, then blames everyone for interpreting it incorrectly? Great logic skills, buddy.
Given his statement, apparently all of those censorship and freedom of speech problems don't exist. Move along, nothing to see here.
I can't speak for your system, but most people wildly over-estimate their power supply needs. Couple that with the fact that this product is aimed at a fairly small segment of the computing population who will go as far as to underclock their processors to make their computer quieter, and you see why it's still relevant.
I find it interesting that Googling Light Blue Optics yields not one picture of this device in action. They have a photoshopped mock-up image showing a full-color display that's misleading at best, but that's it. It's nice that it's the size of a matchbox, but if you can't take a single picture of it in action, what's the use.
I think this study is correct in instances where the parties don't know each other well (or at all). I think the percentages go up considerably for pairs of users who know each other and interact outside of email.
This should be a cautionary tale about deploying Microsoft products in production environments.
Most aptly-named cable provider ever.
BS - You get an easy target to blame that isn't you.
Slashdot doesn't use photos, but they often quote a few lines from the articles. Often enough that almost no one RTFA. Looks like the newspaper industry is about as forward-looking as the RIAA and MPAA. This whole Inter-Net thing apparently caught them off guard and they've just noticed it.