You think it's great, I think it's crap. Let's work through the logic here. If we agree that I think the data is inaccurate (I do, honest), can we agree that it would seem silly, to me, to use a sophisticated short-range wireless technology to transmit said inaccurate data to my helmet?
I am sorry, but you can not use the argument that bluetooth is sophisticated, when your preference is GPS. You know, GPS requires a network of satellites, bluetooth is a low power pair of transceivers. One is far less complicated, and cheaper, than the other.
As for BMW's, the first street bike I rode was a early 80's R850, I think.
Probably true. I wasn't arguing for HUD, I was arguing against the suggestion that a HUD should use Bluetooth-transmitted data from the bike's speedo. That just seems silly to me.
Why silly? This is what bluetooth is designed for; short range, low bandwidth, data transmission.
BMW's with their shaft drive should have more accurate speedos than any other brand of bike... if they chose to.
So instead of one data source, you want 2? GPS is crap for speed info anyhow. And a motorcycle speedo is fine at LEGAL speeds. I used to sell Kawasaki's and that dealership had the service contract for the Tucson Police Department bikes. A test was done of all 1998 models, comparing speedo vs radar at speeds up to 75mph (Interstate speed limit in AZ). Greatest error was 4mph, on a Ninja 250 at indicated 60mph. GPS has its uses, HUD for bikes aint it.
Sounds like a great use for bluetooth. Transmit the actaul info from the bike (most bikes are becoming EFI equipped) to the rider. Of course it would have to be configurable... do I want speed/gear/rpm today, or do I want rpm/gear/temp, etc.
I wonder how well the display works when the visor gets foggy, and can it be turned off at speed?
If IE (5.5+) is a must; as it is for my office, please check out the Google Toolbar. Built in google, as well as the pop-up blocking (with subtle notifications).
As long time mutt user I agree with your sentiments, however I'm quite sure Evolution (and similar 'bloated' applications) are needed if Linux ever wants to take over the corporate desktop world.
I prefer pine to elm;-)
Linux will most likely never "take over the corporate desktop world" until there is no more Microsoft. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint rule the roost. And everytime they upgrade to a new version, and Dell keeps selling 37% of the US market (PC in general, not sure of corp numbers), etc etc etc. A reactionary response to bring town the titan is not the way to go. You need to be doing something different, and better. On the outside, I see Evolution as the S.O.S. that MS makes, only without the new XP inspired Office 2003 skin.
One thing he mentions that I had not heard about; p2p telephony over at Skype.com. Seems like a pretty cool idea. Hopefully the "stigma" in the general press asscoiated with KaZaa will not harm Skype.
As to "innovation" other than being a highly overused word (especially in the Mac community), I thing it is truly achieved more often by small groups. Bouncing lots of ideas around, quickly, and little thought about what can be done. Your average newcomer doesn't know what s/he can't do, only what s/he wants to do.
Depends how maxed out you want your machine to be. A dual G5 2.0GHz PowerMac could go for that much, and it would run circles around _any_ $500 wintel machine (I presume that for you wintel=PC).
A sound business model involves getting the maximum return for the minimum investment. They want to do the work only once. They are producing software. 95% of desktop PC's run Windows of some version. Seems like an obvious solution to me.
The article speeaks of a person downgrading performance of media companies to coincide with the market, and to "only" experience 4% growth instead of the previously predicted 14% (or so). Spending on ads has been going ever higher (see Super Bowl ad pricing for 30 second spot over the last 5 years). Just like the stock market, things can't just keep going up and up and up. Markets don't work that way, and people should be smart enough now to realize that.
That being said, ads have creeped their way into movie theaters (not just 10min of trailers now...).
And yes, my roommates TiVo is the coolest thing for TV yet. But that is no different than getting up to go the bathroom/kitchen during commercial breaks. The end result is the same, no commercial watching for me.
Can be a bit of a nightmare when someone in the US is supposed to be running the operation that is doing the work in India, and picking up the slack of work not being done, or being done improperly. With all the back and forth, people are starting to see that it is just easier to have it done properly the first time. Finding truly good people in India appears to be quite difficult at the moment. The really good ones work in the US, so the cream is gone. Of the chaff.... it seems to be hit or miss. Not to mention problems of just getting the people to show up every day; I have heard stories of guys working for 2 weeks, and then taking a month vacation for some family function of some sort or another (wedding usually)!
One critical system can not be held up by another. If there is no water coming out of my faucet, I can still watch TV.
For this reason, I still have a old phone that is not cordless. That way if the power goes out, and the phones don't, I can still have some sort of connectivity.
But there have been rumblings that Gateway wants to move up in the world. A partnership with IBM should be beneficial, and might explain the Linux movement.
Why attach automated guidance rocket to make it splash in the ocean? Firstly, that is expensive. 2nd, I think it would leave a bad taste in my mouth to have Hubble end its career by polluting the ocean with debris.
Why not have a automated guidance system throw it into space, in the general direction of the sun, and let gravity do the rest?
Or....
Blow it up with a huge friggin' space gun! Not that we have any....
If the economy slips due to less people buying the non-essential toys in life, so be it. We can all live without a SUV (cheaper and better gas mileage alternatives exist now), a game console, or a (most likely) replacement TV.
Food and shelter are top priority. Almost any job can provide a basic form of this.
Americans are to used to the following equation:
I want == I need
Sadly, most Americans forget that:
want != need
I suppose you were one of the people surprised when the DOW fell from its 11,000+ heights, when it got there for no real reason?
Face it, for what most H1B/L1 types do... paying an American 3x as much just doesn't make economic sense when you are trying to keep your company making a profit! If the tool is available, use it. By not using it, you make yourself less capable to compete. Certain big, profitable, companies know this. The rest piss and moan about how unfair it is... as they lost money hand over fist.
How much unused fiber is there around the US? All the major telcom's got sucked into the dot-com broadband explosion in the 1990's, and almost all of it is unused. Why will Utah be different? Are the taxpayers really wanting to pay to install this system, only to pay again to use it? Being a relatively conservative state (not everyone in Utah is a Mormon... but the educated masses of/. knew that), I can't see them wanting to pay higher taxes, just so they can get broadband access. Businesses in the area will appreciate the choice (if available for commercial usage), and the geeks will be into it, but Ma and Pa Kettle probably don't give two wits about it.
I say spend the money on our real future, school systems.
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You think it's great, I think it's crap. Let's work through the logic here. If we agree that I think the data is inaccurate (I do, honest), can we agree that it would seem silly, to me, to use a sophisticated short-range wireless technology to transmit said inaccurate data to my helmet?
I am sorry, but you can not use the argument that bluetooth is sophisticated, when your preference is GPS. You know, GPS requires a network of satellites, bluetooth is a low power pair of transceivers. One is far less complicated, and cheaper, than the other.
As for BMW's, the first street bike I rode was a early 80's R850, I think.
Probably true. I wasn't arguing for HUD, I was arguing against the suggestion that a HUD should use Bluetooth-transmitted data from the bike's speedo. That just seems silly to me.
Why silly? This is what bluetooth is designed for; short range, low bandwidth, data transmission.
BMW's with their shaft drive should have more accurate speedos than any other brand of bike... if they chose to.
So instead of one data source, you want 2? GPS is crap for speed info anyhow. And a motorcycle speedo is fine at LEGAL speeds. I used to sell Kawasaki's and that dealership had the service contract for the Tucson Police Department bikes. A test was done of all 1998 models, comparing speedo vs radar at speeds up to 75mph (Interstate speed limit in AZ). Greatest error was 4mph, on a Ninja 250 at indicated 60mph. GPS has its uses, HUD for bikes aint it.
Sounds like a great use for bluetooth. Transmit the actaul info from the bike (most bikes are becoming EFI equipped) to the rider. Of course it would have to be configurable... do I want speed/gear/rpm today, or do I want rpm/gear/temp, etc.
I wonder how well the display works when the visor gets foggy, and can it be turned off at speed?
If IE (5.5+) is a must; as it is for my office, please check out the Google Toolbar. Built in google, as well as the pop-up blocking (with subtle notifications).
between wmp9 and vlc i can play most any video now on os x. i also have DivX 5.1 installed. do you have sample file url's that i can muck around with?
10.1 -> 10.2 "Jaguar" ($129)
10.2 -> 10.3 "Panther" ($129)
OS X isn't cheap either... not to mention the price of buying a Mac desktop these days.
I prefer pine to elm
Linux will most likely never "take over the corporate desktop world" until there is no more Microsoft. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint rule the roost. And everytime they upgrade to a new version, and Dell keeps selling 37% of the US market (PC in general, not sure of corp numbers), etc etc etc. A reactionary response to bring town the titan is not the way to go. You need to be doing something different, and better. On the outside, I see Evolution as the S.O.S. that MS makes, only without the new XP inspired Office 2003 skin.
Yes. This is why the "stable" download page has 1.4.5 not 1.5.0 there.
pity the fool that wants to buy a computer from Wal-Mart these days.... I think the nicest logo will win (to be honest).
One thing he mentions that I had not heard about; p2p telephony over at Skype.com. Seems like a pretty cool idea. Hopefully the "stigma" in the general press asscoiated with KaZaa will not harm Skype.
As to "innovation" other than being a highly overused word (especially in the Mac community), I thing it is truly achieved more often by small groups. Bouncing lots of ideas around, quickly, and little thought about what can be done. Your average newcomer doesn't know what s/he can't do, only what s/he wants to do.
Depends how maxed out you want your machine to be. A dual G5 2.0GHz PowerMac could go for that much, and it would run circles around _any_ $500 wintel machine (I presume that for you wintel=PC).
Why? Open source does not equal *nix/*bsd/Mac.
A sound business model involves getting the maximum return for the minimum investment. They want to do the work only once. They are producing software. 95% of desktop PC's run Windows of some version. Seems like an obvious solution to me.
>>> Someone over there in the GAO has their head screwed on right.
<sarcasm>
Diane is working on getting this fixed. Results should be visible by Feb 2004.
</sarcasm>
The article speeaks of a person downgrading performance of media companies to coincide with the market, and to "only" experience 4% growth instead of the previously predicted 14% (or so). Spending on ads has been going ever higher (see Super Bowl ad pricing for 30 second spot over the last 5 years). Just like the stock market, things can't just keep going up and up and up. Markets don't work that way, and people should be smart enough now to realize that.
That being said, ads have creeped their way into movie theaters (not just 10min of trailers now...).
And yes, my roommates TiVo is the coolest thing for TV yet. But that is no different than getting up to go the bathroom/kitchen during commercial breaks. The end result is the same, no commercial watching for me.
Can be a bit of a nightmare when someone in the US is supposed to be running the operation that is doing the work in India, and picking up the slack of work not being done, or being done improperly. With all the back and forth, people are starting to see that it is just easier to have it done properly the first time. Finding truly good people in India appears to be quite difficult at the moment. The really good ones work in the US, so the cream is gone. Of the chaff.... it seems to be hit or miss. Not to mention problems of just getting the people to show up every day; I have heard stories of guys working for 2 weeks, and then taking a month vacation for some family function of some sort or another (wedding usually)!
One critical system can not be held up by another. If there is no water coming out of my faucet, I can still watch TV.
For this reason, I still have a old phone that is not cordless. That way if the power goes out, and the phones don't, I can still have some sort of connectivity.
I got that email Wednesday... completely forgot about it! Anyway, this is what they just told me after changing my marketing prefs:
"Thank you, your changes have been saved. Please allow approximately 5 days for this change to take effect."
That must be a very slow database they use....
Apple uses *BSD...........
gun, knife, fists, or feet?
Apple's 20th... not the Macintosh's 20th. ;-)
Gateway already offers RedHat.
Gateway has less than 1% of the US server market.
But there have been rumblings that Gateway wants to move up in the world. A partnership with IBM should be beneficial, and might explain the Linux movement.
Why attach automated guidance rocket to make it splash in the ocean? Firstly, that is expensive. 2nd, I think it would leave a bad taste in my mouth to have Hubble end its career by polluting the ocean with debris.
Why not have a automated guidance system throw it into space, in the general direction of the sun, and let gravity do the rest?
Or....
Blow it up with a huge friggin' space gun! Not that we have any....
*whistles while walking away*
If the economy slips due to less people buying the non-essential toys in life, so be it. We can all live without a SUV (cheaper and better gas mileage alternatives exist now), a game console, or a (most likely) replacement TV.
Food and shelter are top priority. Almost any job can provide a basic form of this.
Americans are to used to the following equation:
I want == I need
Sadly, most Americans forget that:
want != need
I suppose you were one of the people surprised when the DOW fell from its 11,000+ heights, when it got there for no real reason?
Face it, for what most H1B/L1 types do... paying an American 3x as much just doesn't make economic sense when you are trying to keep your company making a profit! If the tool is available, use it. By not using it, you make yourself less capable to compete. Certain big, profitable, companies know this. The rest piss and moan about how unfair it is... as they lost money hand over fist.
If $10 comes in, and $12 goes out...
How much unused fiber is there around the US? All the major telcom's got sucked into the dot-com broadband explosion in the 1990's, and almost all of it is unused. Why will Utah be different? Are the taxpayers really wanting to pay to install this system, only to pay again to use it? Being a relatively conservative state (not everyone in Utah is a Mormon... but the educated masses of /. knew that), I can't see them wanting to pay higher taxes, just so they can get broadband access. Businesses in the area will appreciate the choice (if available for commercial usage), and the geeks will be into it, but Ma and Pa Kettle probably don't give two wits about it.
I say spend the money on our real future, school systems.