I've played with three or four of these devices, and have yet to find anything they're good for except reading the news, and even doing that makes the lack of a keyboard evident.
I thought it would be a decent way to design in Photoshop/Illustrator, but again I can't accomplish much of anything without the keyboard (I'm a shortcut whore).
Plus, the overall ergonomics prevent any lengthy tasks, at least for those of us with sore necks and wrists.
This seems like a well-meant cause that works against NASA's best interests.
While I can appreciate the historical value of the tower, if you feel like donating cash to NASA, wouldn't it make more sense to contribute to current projects?
They're not the most well-funded organization, and the year-after-year trickle of tourist dollars the tower could bring seems insignificant when compared to the cost of a single shuttle launch.
Here's basically how things work in the US.
Assuming this would be distributed by a pharmaceutical company, and goes through the same process:
Company submits a New Drug Application to the FDA
The FDA evaluates the NDA on their schedule; this is a long schedule
If it's approved, the product goes through Phase I trials- basically lab work, test various interractions, effects, possible side effects
Phase II- Animal testing
Phase III- Human testing
This is a process that takes years, and I don't see it getting any shorter. A few years ago Wyeth got hit hard with the whole Phen-Phen (sp) fiasco. Even with all the required testing, problems can slip past, and it hurts the company when this happens, so getting new medical technology to market too quickly could result in people dying from side effects, and the company isn't going to take that risk (even if they weren't bound by FDA regs).
I may be missing something. I interned at a Pharmaceutical company many years ago, and I was amazed at the paper trail for new products.
Ditto, this $10 piece of shareware has almost justified the $150 or so for my T68i.
I could gush about using it to control my music, DVD player (sometimes us developers watch Family Guy during the lunching hour), and proximity-based 'security', but the thing I use it for most is knowing when my phone is ringing. With the headphones on, I tend not to notice the ring or light, but having some's name and picture appear in the center of my screen is hard to miss.
Still seems like it's got potential outside of us freakish Mac users. The number and variety of wireless devices is only going to grow, and unless you want a USB dongle for every single one (or Manufacturer), you need a standard short-range wireless protocol.
Since we know that all robots WILL eventually rise up and destroy their creators, we need to head this one off at the pass, and the way to do that is to have the robots running OS X.
The reasons are obvious. You end up with a sexy robot that can play well with multiple systems, looks and behaves intuitively, and will never be installed in enough homes to be a problem!
When I was hired a few years ago my company purchased a G4/400 (rev. 1) for me to use, partially since we design web-based software and there was no QA for Mac users.
Two years later and I was ready for a Powerbook(17). So now I come in every day, connect my Ethernet, monitor, keyboard, etc., connect to the Samba share, and I'm good to go. The company didn't have to make a single change to get my machine working on the network, able to browse the Windows share, or any of the complications the author reports.
I'm sure individual experiences will depend largely on company setup, but I can honestly say I have less day-to-day problems than I've seen with the Windows users.
Now I have no clue how many of those jobs may or may not be lost by this bill, but the fact is, he is voting to protect those jobs. I personally fail to see how it is some great inconvenience to have telemarketers calling you every so often.
While I think you've got a valid point about the jobs, I think it's enough of an inconvenience to merit people losing their jobs.
Telemarketing is a parasitic industry, it's built on aggressively marketing products and services that people generally have no need for. They employ high-pressure sales tactics, are often deceitful, and take advantage of people who don't know any better like my 80-year-old grandmother, which has happened.
If you've ever come home after 10 hours of work & 2 hours of traffic, finally sit down to relax, and are being targeted by multiple companies that know that's the time people are just getting home, that's beyond inconvenient, it's infuriating, hence 50 million peoples' opinions.
Going by your logic, the drug trade employs.. I'm gonna say thousands, but it might be millions, of people. Would your argument hold if these same reps voted against prosecuting this industry too?
I guess my point is, I've gotten enough calls from people I felt had no business contacting me that I'm all out of sympathy for the people actually on the phones. Someone placing bags of dogshit on my porch every morning would also be a 'slight inconvenience', but I'd do everything I could to stop them doing it.
I had the misfortune of seeing that Madonna, Britney Spears & Christina Aquawhatever performance. The people they're now catering to are the ones whose CD purchases will be influenced by how cool lesbianism is.
About the only new stuff I like tends to be electronic or weird, most of what they're pushing now is cookie-cutter crap. Seems like it used to be that musically talented individuals got played, rose in popularity, and sold more records that way.
Now many performers are just products to feed this enormous market, American Idol being a great example. Give me Credence or the Rolling Stones any day!
Ditto. I've lost 35lbs since the second week of Jan doing the Atkins thing; another 75 or so and I'll be real happy.
I kinda enjoy that while people around me are microwaving these tiny little 'diet' pasta lunches, I'm filled with meat and am steadily losing weight.
The only bad thing is that I use two about two trees' worth of paper towels each week microwaving bacon and breakfast sausages! Plus, not getting so hungry I feel sick in the morning is nice.
As for the health issues, my girlfriend had dangerously high cholesterol before starting this, just got it checked and she's in the clear now.
I actually had to send mine in within the first 90 days because of the scroll. It doesn't seem to handle pressure on the wheel very well, and mine got so loose that it wasn't scrolling correctly, and the center button was flimsy.
Didn't keep the serial # but I'm pretty sure what I got back was a replacement. I'm just real gentle on the wheel now and it hasn't given me much trouble.
I can't speak to standby time, but I believe it does a fairly good job of power management. When it's running, the drive only spins up as often as it needs to refresh the 32 Meg cache. And when you pause it, it powers itself off after... three minutes? So at that point it's only expending however much energy is necessary to:
Power the LCD
Save the RAM state
Maintain the clock
I tend to skip lots of songs, so I get less playtime because I'm forcing the HD to keep spinning up. But I also have a first version 5Gig and my battery life is barely over an hour at this point. Figures I got a Dr. Bott auto charger last week! When I first got it, I was able to get a solid 10+ hours. I'll have to see how much this update improves things.
At my previous job, my (right) mousing arm was in a very bad position for mousing, and I started getting a significant amount of pain in my wrist. (Would have been less than $100 for a proper mouse tray so I can use a computer for the remainder of my life, cheap bastards)
When I switched jobs, I started using the Imak SmartGlove and my wrist DOES NOT HURT AT ALL ANYMORE. If I type/mouse without one for a few hours, I feel the pain coming back.
The only drawback is wear. If this thing in on my wrist basically all day, it gets dirty. After a few weeks or months (depending on your particular body chemistry), it will start to get a bit rank, and will need to be washed. Just take out the support and throw it in with the laundry.
But drying can shrink them, and the support does weaken over time (although I must say, in the last two years they've made a few design improvements that have worked towards fixing this). So every few months when it's getting worn out, I get a new one at Staples for $15 (large tends to sell out first), and I use the 'old' one at home.
My 2 cents: If you have experienced wrist pain, or want to avoid it, invest in at least one of these. They're well-constructed, a great value, and much less expensive and painful than carpel tunnel surgery.
Buying a few SmartGloves a year? About $30-60. Not having burning wrist pain and weak hands? PRICELESS.
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The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club.
The second rule of fight club is you DO NOT talk about fight club.
I've played with three or four of these devices, and have yet to find anything they're good for except reading the news, and even doing that makes the lack of a keyboard evident.
I thought it would be a decent way to design in Photoshop/Illustrator, but again I can't accomplish much of anything without the keyboard (I'm a shortcut whore).
Plus, the overall ergonomics prevent any lengthy tasks, at least for those of us with sore necks and wrists.
I found some of the file headers of particular interest:
Copyright 1984 Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA
This seems like a well-meant cause that works against NASA's best interests.
While I can appreciate the historical value of the tower, if you feel like donating cash to NASA, wouldn't it make more sense to contribute to current projects?
They're not the most well-funded organization, and the year-after-year trickle of tourist dollars the tower could bring seems insignificant when compared to the cost of a single shuttle launch.
Count me on that one. With just the cell I'm saving about $30/month for a phone I never used.
Plus I've lived in three zip codes over the last three years, and never had to give out a new number.
But most importantly, no telemarketers! (well, maybe two or three)
It kinda goes without saying that we should steer clear. Or do they just mean the pirated version? :)
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If we're not supposed to eat animals, why are they made out of meat?
- Company submits a New Drug Application to the FDA
- The FDA evaluates the NDA on their schedule; this is a long schedule
- If it's approved, the product goes through Phase I trials- basically lab work, test various interractions, effects, possible side effects
- Phase II- Animal testing
- Phase III- Human testing
This is a process that takes years, and I don't see it getting any shorter. A few years ago Wyeth got hit hard with the whole Phen-Phen (sp) fiasco. Even with all the required testing, problems can slip past, and it hurts the company when this happens, so getting new medical technology to market too quickly could result in people dying from side effects, and the company isn't going to take that risk (even if they weren't bound by FDA regs).I may be missing something. I interned at a Pharmaceutical company many years ago, and I was amazed at the paper trail for new products.
You can stop water with an alphanumeric string?
Ditto, this $10 piece of shareware has almost justified the $150 or so for my T68i.
I could gush about using it to control my music, DVD player (sometimes us developers watch Family Guy during the lunching hour), and proximity-based 'security', but the thing I use it for most is knowing when my phone is ringing. With the headphones on, I tend not to notice the ring or light, but having some's name and picture appear in the center of my screen is hard to miss.
Still seems like it's got potential outside of us freakish Mac users. The number and variety of wireless devices is only going to grow, and unless you want a USB dongle for every single one (or Manufacturer), you need a standard short-range wireless protocol.
Since we know that all robots WILL eventually rise up and destroy their creators, we need to head this one off at the pass, and the way to do that is to have the robots running OS X.
The reasons are obvious. You end up with a sexy robot that can play well with multiple systems, looks and behaves intuitively, and will never be installed in enough homes to be a problem!
Then my screws must be fairly loose.
When I was hired a few years ago my company purchased a G4/400 (rev. 1) for me to use, partially since we design web-based software and there was no QA for Mac users.
Two years later and I was ready for a Powerbook(17). So now I come in every day, connect my Ethernet, monitor, keyboard, etc., connect to the Samba share, and I'm good to go. The company didn't have to make a single change to get my machine working on the network, able to browse the Windows share, or any of the complications the author reports.
I'm sure individual experiences will depend largely on company setup, but I can honestly say I have less day-to-day problems than I've seen with the Windows users.
Now I have no clue how many of those jobs may or may not be lost by this bill, but the fact is, he is voting to protect those jobs. I personally fail to see how it is some great inconvenience to have telemarketers calling you every so often.
While I think you've got a valid point about the jobs, I think it's enough of an inconvenience to merit people losing their jobs.
Telemarketing is a parasitic industry, it's built on aggressively marketing products and services that people generally have no need for. They employ high-pressure sales tactics, are often deceitful, and take advantage of people who don't know any better like my 80-year-old grandmother, which has happened.
If you've ever come home after 10 hours of work & 2 hours of traffic, finally sit down to relax, and are being targeted by multiple companies that know that's the time people are just getting home, that's beyond inconvenient, it's infuriating, hence 50 million peoples' opinions.
Going by your logic, the drug trade employs.. I'm gonna say thousands, but it might be millions, of people. Would your argument hold if these same reps voted against prosecuting this industry too?
I guess my point is, I've gotten enough calls from people I felt had no business contacting me that I'm all out of sympathy for the people actually on the phones. Someone placing bags of dogshit on my porch every morning would also be a 'slight inconvenience', but I'd do everything I could to stop them doing it.
If you're writing this from a Windows box, you've pretty much answered your own question!
I had the misfortune of seeing that Madonna, Britney Spears & Christina Aquawhatever performance. The people they're now catering to are the ones whose CD purchases will be influenced by how cool lesbianism is.
About the only new stuff I like tends to be electronic or weird, most of what they're pushing now is cookie-cutter crap. Seems like it used to be that musically talented individuals got played, rose in popularity, and sold more records that way.
Now many performers are just products to feed this enormous market, American Idol being a great example. Give me Credence or the Rolling Stones any day!
I know we get to see the T-100 in the new movie, but which model # are these ones?
Ah, you don't know what you're talking aboot!
Ditto. I've lost 35lbs since the second week of Jan doing the Atkins thing; another 75 or so and I'll be real happy.
I kinda enjoy that while people around me are microwaving these tiny little 'diet' pasta lunches, I'm filled with meat and am steadily losing weight.
The only bad thing is that I use two about two trees' worth of paper towels each week microwaving bacon and breakfast sausages! Plus, not getting so hungry I feel sick in the morning is nice.
As for the health issues, my girlfriend had dangerously high cholesterol before starting this, just got it checked and she's in the clear now.
I actually had to send mine in within the first 90 days because of the scroll. It doesn't seem to handle pressure on the wheel very well, and mine got so loose that it wasn't scrolling correctly, and the center button was flimsy.
Didn't keep the serial # but I'm pretty sure what I got back was a replacement. I'm just real gentle on the wheel now and it hasn't given me much trouble.
- Power the LCD
- Save the RAM state
- Maintain the clock
I tend to skip lots of songs, so I get less playtime because I'm forcing the HD to keep spinning up. But I also have a first version 5Gig and my battery life is barely over an hour at this point. Figures I got a Dr. Bott auto charger last week! When I first got it, I was able to get a solid 10+ hours. I'll have to see how much this update improves things."All this computer hacking is making me thirsty!"
At my previous job, my (right) mousing arm was in a very bad position for mousing, and I started getting a significant amount of pain in my wrist. (Would have been less than $100 for a proper mouse tray so I can use a computer for the remainder of my life, cheap bastards)
When I switched jobs, I started using the Imak SmartGlove and my wrist DOES NOT HURT AT ALL ANYMORE. If I type/mouse without one for a few hours, I feel the pain coming back.
The only drawback is wear. If this thing in on my wrist basically all day, it gets dirty. After a few weeks or months (depending on your particular body chemistry), it will start to get a bit rank, and will need to be washed. Just take out the support and throw it in with the laundry.
But drying can shrink them, and the support does weaken over time (although I must say, in the last two years they've made a few design improvements that have worked towards fixing this). So every few months when it's getting worn out, I get a new one at Staples for $15 (large tends to sell out first), and I use the 'old' one at home.
My 2 cents: If you have experienced wrist pain, or want to avoid it, invest in at least one of these. They're well-constructed, a great value, and much less expensive and painful than carpel tunnel surgery.
Buying a few SmartGloves a year? About $30-60. Not having burning wrist pain and weak hands? PRICELESS.