I think the need is there for this type of things. Just think for a minute in all the ways that you could use a Tablet PC (one that is cheaper, better designed, and smaller - i.e. the ones that will be coming out in the next couple of years). If you are not that creative I will give you a couple ways I see them being used.
Companies that need to do inventory but do not have the funds or know-how to invest in barcode wireless scanners. They could use to a Tablet PC to instantly change inventory and update it to the database.
Hospitals can use the Tablet PC to look at patient's medical records. The doctor would have more information at his fingertip and potentially be in a better position to make the correct diagnosis with further burdening paperwork.
At my college's admission office, we make phone calls to perspective students. The counselors need the information as to how the calls go (and this is of course done on a database). However, we do not want the perspective students to hear us typing on a computer, so we have to write all the notes out on paper and then someone later has to type these notes in. How much faster would it be with a couple tablets?
These are just a couple that I came up with in five minutes off the top of my head. There have to be literally millions of other uses (not including simply being used as an ebook reader, since these things seem to be poised to be skinnier than a normal labtop). I have to believe that if Tablet PCs were done correctly and the price is lowered, the demand would be there. I know that from what I have seen with those around me, I want one if I could simply afford it.
I think that what you proposed is probably the eventual intention of Google. Currently, however, froogle is still in beta. Hopefully soon they will decide that it meets their criteria and launch it for real. Then, hopefully, they will do what you suggest and make that the place for getting store information.
He is not joking. That is where the term comes from. Quick check of M-w.com to get this:
Etymology: Middle English sclave, from Old French or Medieval Latin; Old French esclave, from Medieval Latin sclavus, from Sclavus Slavic; from the frequent enslavement of Slavs in central Europe
Date: 14th century
But you are correct, there were slaves well before the word came into being. And so the idea should not be held to just one group.
Thanks for the clarification. Absolutely scary that OUR represantitives, senators, and president were bought so badly that they signed that into law. Just plain scary.
Another important legal question (and IANAL) but it is something I have been wondering throughout. If the RIAA sues people, don't they have to prove that they have suffered damages and loses? How can they prove that because a 12 year-old downloaded music that she would have instead purchased that CD? How do they show that her downloads and shares actually caused them damage? That said how can they show that they suffered damages when I downloaded music if I would not have purchased it any way?
I would understand if it was a criminal allegation but it seems this is civil. In this case, doesn't the RIAA have to show more than a crime took place but also they were harmed by this crime?
Please point me to one site that has good popups that Mozilla blocks. Have you used a newer version of Mozilla in a while?
Two that used to give me problems were Amazon.com and Espn.com. Amazon has a popup whenever you rate an item that you have purchased that On Amazon.com, Mozilla used to block the popups when you tried to delete something off of your recommended page but that has not been the case in a couple of versions. Espn's site will pop up their interactive content during games. I tried it this weekend and had no problems with it being blocked. The way Mozilla is setup is that it allows popups that were generated based on the user's click.
Maybe you were just trolling and I bit but give a newer version of Mozilla a try and I think you will be suprised at how much it leaves without blocking.
Bull shit. CEOs are high paid people stealing from their workers when they drive their companies into the ground. Who do you think was hurt most in the shake down with Enron, WorldCom, etc., the investors or those working at their offices? How about the workers that were paid partially in stock or given incentives to purchase options in the company?
Or if you really believe that investors were hit hard, was it the "rich capitalists" as you say or was it the family putting some money away to retire?
White colar crime hurts the economy and people a lot more than you are giving it credit. It is not the rich capitalists that are hurt the most - they are way too diversified and hell have to much disposable income. It is the average Joes that got the shaft with those mentioned above.
Of course, none of that takes away from the fact that this man stealed and should spend a lot of time in jail. Just that crime and punishment are never as simple as we want to make it seem.
Take a look at Rise of Nations. It was designed by Brian Reynolds (the man that made Civilization 2) and his talented staff at Big Huge Games. It has many of the things you seem to be looking for.
One click has your scout scouting the map looking for resources and your enemy. You are forced to make choices on what path you research. You build cities that are the base of all of your unit gathering powers. Your citizens find the resource that should be gathered in each city. And many other innovative features that take much of the repetitious micromanagement out of the game.
Let me know what you think and maybe we can play a game or two after you get some experience.
I was thinking the same thing. Apparently that was the plan but they have been forced to change things (perhaps due to the Netscape break).
Buried deep in the To Do list on the official Roadmap page is one small but significant change. This is the passage that has been added. (There are probably other changes today as well but that is the one I noticed and pertains to this question).
It's clear now that we will not be able to switch to Mozilla Firebird by the Mozilla 1.5 final milestone. Instead, we expect Mozilla 1.5 to coincide with Mozilla Firebird 0.7. But we intend to implement the new application architecture in the next several milestones, till most of the community is won over to the new apps.
Hmmm... At the bottom of the page, the Roadmap states that it was last changed July 22, 2003 - so it appears that they were forced to make the change and only sort of let it be known. Wonder what is going on?
Well, until then, I will keep using Firebird. But for those migrating - another positive is that 1.5alpha is 1.4 Mbs smaller.
Exactly. People need to realize this. I started with Slashdot (learning some interesting tech stuff), read about Mozilla (at home - here at work, I am stuck with IE) and so I tried that, then figured that I would give OpenOffice a try (when it reach 1.0.1), and finally I have now have given Redhat a shot (in a duel boot setting). While I always thought Linux would be interesting to try out, it wasn't until most of what I did already (Internet and Office Apps) migrated from MS to OSS in Windows that I was ready to try Linux.
I think this may be the way that Linux can convince more people to move over. Show them they do not need MS and in fact can get better options from other sources. Then boom switch their desktop.
Now I just need to learn MySQL and then I will have no need for MS again.
True, but many of the people with AOL like having no control of the internet. To my parents (I didn't allow it before I left for college) just wanted AOL. It tells you when you have email. It tells you where to find your news, where to shop, and constantly gives you help and advice. They just didn't want to take the time to figure things out on there own. So AOL is providing what many of their customers probably want.
Thankfully, for my sanity when I come home, my father has finally begun to use Netscape 7 (he's not quite ready for a browser he has never heard of) and shop at stores online other than those that AOL recommends. Give the users time, they will eventually agree with your comments. But not until they get over their fear of the great big Internet. Baby steps.
I have seen people do this at college with books they did not want to buy. They simply found the old work online and printed the whole thing. One guy told me that way he could choose the font and size and so it was easier to read. And there was always enough paper laying around to do so.
Personally I don't think it is worth the trouble to print entire works, especially considering that a book seems pretty reasonably priced (figure that 800 pages will take about 8 hours at an hour per 100 pages) the price I paid was 2 dollars an hour. Compare that with a movie purchase or CD purchase. Not to mention the quality difference and I think consumers of Harry Potter are happy to pay for it while they are not for the crap that the Hulk was. However, there are a few works (higher priced for a class I did not want to take) that I would be interested in doing so in the future.
So while your point about printing is a downgrade in quality makes sense, if the price rises enough, I think it would be a distinct possibility that more online book swapping would occur.
OK, so he didn't put anything about the article, does that justify posting the whole article here? It is not going to be slashdotted (if it is, the NYTimes is in a lot more trouble than I thought) and if what Michael said would not get someone to go read the article than this will not make it more likely to be read.
Why not simply help Michael out by giving the summary he could have made? Such as, "As technology advances the chances for government's foul use grow. Satallite imagery is beginning to be used for spying on common citizens without a warrant. This could be used to track down terrorists or those pesky hackers. For once I agree with Judge Scalia's position..." or something along these lines. For gosh sakes, don't try to karma whore and then not add anything to the discussion or do more work than Michael did.
CPU Bach was actually only available on 3D0. According to Gamespot a while back this was due to the sound quality of the 3D0 compared to the Sound Blaster sound cards of the time (1993). More here
This article also has interesting quotes as to why Sid even bothered with this 'game.' The reason to Sid was that it followed just after he completed Civilization and he did not want to try and top himself with every game. Instead he found trying to make a program that created Bach music much more relaxing and a fun effort.
This is not a Sid Meier game. It is a Brian Reynolds game (the man that designed Civ II and SMAC). Got a lot of faith in him and this one is going to be good.
About the colors, have you gone to games.slashdot.org or have you just read this article? If you haven't done the first, try it and see if you like all the bars with the bluish purple metallic look. It is not something I am personally fond of. And then trying to read through all these messages with the links in that color is not appealing. It would be really nice if the shade was either lighter or darker.
However, if you read the write up at the top of the page and what the moderator said ("from the free-money-programs-but-no-free-money dept.") then you would get the idea that it was free.
Not to mention that if you read the article it never gives a price. In fact, it states "I filled out the information on their free download link and that took me to the instruction page." It was not until I read the comments of the review that I first learned it was not a free product. I can easily forgive this person for not realizing it - the editors of Slashdot made it seem like it was a free Linux product. I know that is what I understood until I read the fine print of the article.
I like what you are attempting to say but you are missing one important point, Hummer Winblad took the legal liability in investing. This quote from the article reads:
"In May 2000, Hummer Winblad invested about $13 million in Napster and took control of its business and legal liabilities, with [Hank] Barry [general partner of Hummer Winblad] assuming an interim CEO role"
Now I am unsure why a company would take control of Napster's legal liablilites when they knew that it had a lot of music infringing going on (here could be there case saying they had no idea) but the article clearly states that in the deal Hummer Winbland took legal liability. So I would have to think the RIAA probably has a really good case to stand on since Napster was already ordered shut down and Hummer Winbland is legally responsible.
There isn't any way that the NY Times is going to be slashdotted. Mod this parent down, what a waste of a post and of the flow of the conversation. As has been pointed out countless times there is a ring around their subscription service and even that in my opinion should now be modded down as repetitive.
If you look at the address if any article linked through news.google.com you will see '&partner=GOOGLE'. NYTimes Online probably has a number of partners that going through give you free access without the registration. Not sure if you can simply take an article and add the partner thing to see if I can get through (I already have preregistered so it has no effect) but some one else should give it a shot.
I agree, I was going to moderate them as such but I thought posting this one brief thought was more important. Why instead of posting an apology that this is a duplicate, did the story instead simply be removed from the front page? They could have put it under some other heading and killed the feeding frenzy of it on the first page. It just seems like that would have been a better way to deal with this instead of letting something take the place of some other worthy story.
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Should have been from the "days-old-news-bin."
Seriously, this was announced days ago. Seems that if the Slashdot community really cared about this, it would have already been posted. But I guess today must have been an extremely slow news day for this "everyone knew it was going to come out sooner or later" to make the front page.
You are missing the point, a company using spam is doing so to make money. To make money he has to sell a product or a service. So, if he was off shores sending spam, the product he was selling would have to be shipped into the country where it could then be seized. Going offshore would not be an evolution for a spammer, it would be the end of their business model since they still need to sell the service or product. Thus making spam illegal would end spam.
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I think the need is there for this type of things. Just think for a minute in all the ways that you could use a Tablet PC (one that is cheaper, better designed, and smaller - i.e. the ones that will be coming out in the next couple of years). If you are not that creative I will give you a couple ways I see them being used.
Companies that need to do inventory but do not have the funds or know-how to invest in barcode wireless scanners. They could use to a Tablet PC to instantly change inventory and update it to the database.
Hospitals can use the Tablet PC to look at patient's medical records. The doctor would have more information at his fingertip and potentially be in a better position to make the correct diagnosis with further burdening paperwork.
At my college's admission office, we make phone calls to perspective students. The counselors need the information as to how the calls go (and this is of course done on a database). However, we do not want the perspective students to hear us typing on a computer, so we have to write all the notes out on paper and then someone later has to type these notes in. How much faster would it be with a couple tablets?
These are just a couple that I came up with in five minutes off the top of my head. There have to be literally millions of other uses (not including simply being used as an ebook reader, since these things seem to be poised to be skinnier than a normal labtop). I have to believe that if Tablet PCs were done correctly and the price is lowered, the demand would be there. I know that from what I have seen with those around me, I want one if I could simply afford it.
I think that what you proposed is probably the eventual intention of Google. Currently, however, froogle is still in beta. Hopefully soon they will decide that it meets their criteria and launch it for real. Then, hopefully, they will do what you suggest and make that the place for getting store information.
Etymology: Middle English sclave, from Old French or Medieval Latin; Old French esclave, from Medieval Latin sclavus, from Sclavus Slavic; from the frequent enslavement of Slavs in central Europe
Date: 14th century
But you are correct, there were slaves well before the word came into being. And so the idea should not be held to just one group.
Not only an obvious troll, it is also one that opposes his previous comments on Slashdot.
Thanks for the clarification. Absolutely scary that OUR represantitives, senators, and president were bought so badly that they signed that into law. Just plain scary.
Another important legal question (and IANAL) but it is something I have been wondering throughout. If the RIAA sues people, don't they have to prove that they have suffered damages and loses? How can they prove that because a 12 year-old downloaded music that she would have instead purchased that CD? How do they show that her downloads and shares actually caused them damage? That said how can they show that they suffered damages when I downloaded music if I would not have purchased it any way?
I would understand if it was a criminal allegation but it seems this is civil. In this case, doesn't the RIAA have to show more than a crime took place but also they were harmed by this crime?
Please point me to one site that has good popups that Mozilla blocks. Have you used a newer version of Mozilla in a while?
Two that used to give me problems were Amazon.com and Espn.com. Amazon has a popup whenever you rate an item that you have purchased that On Amazon.com, Mozilla used to block the popups when you tried to delete something off of your recommended page but that has not been the case in a couple of versions. Espn's site will pop up their interactive content during games. I tried it this weekend and had no problems with it being blocked. The way Mozilla is setup is that it allows popups that were generated based on the user's click.
Maybe you were just trolling and I bit but give a newer version of Mozilla a try and I think you will be suprised at how much it leaves without blocking.
Bull shit. CEOs are high paid people stealing from their workers when they drive their companies into the ground. Who do you think was hurt most in the shake down with Enron, WorldCom, etc., the investors or those working at their offices? How about the workers that were paid partially in stock or given incentives to purchase options in the company?
Or if you really believe that investors were hit hard, was it the "rich capitalists" as you say or was it the family putting some money away to retire?
White colar crime hurts the economy and people a lot more than you are giving it credit. It is not the rich capitalists that are hurt the most - they are way too diversified and hell have to much disposable income. It is the average Joes that got the shaft with those mentioned above.
Of course, none of that takes away from the fact that this man stealed and should spend a lot of time in jail. Just that crime and punishment are never as simple as we want to make it seem.
Take a look at Rise of Nations. It was designed by Brian Reynolds (the man that made Civilization 2) and his talented staff at Big Huge Games. It has many of the things you seem to be looking for.
One click has your scout scouting the map looking for resources and your enemy. You are forced to make choices on what path you research. You build cities that are the base of all of your unit gathering powers. Your citizens find the resource that should be gathered in each city. And many other innovative features that take much of the repetitious micromanagement out of the game.
Let me know what you think and maybe we can play a game or two after you get some experience.
I was thinking the same thing. Apparently that was the plan but they have been forced to change things (perhaps due to the Netscape break).
Buried deep in the To Do list on the official Roadmap page is one small but significant change. This is the passage that has been added. (There are probably other changes today as well but that is the one I noticed and pertains to this question).
It's clear now that we will not be able to switch to Mozilla Firebird by the Mozilla 1.5 final milestone. Instead, we expect Mozilla 1.5 to coincide with Mozilla Firebird 0.7. But we intend to implement the new application architecture in the next several milestones, till most of the community is won over to the new apps.
Hmmm... At the bottom of the page, the Roadmap states that it was last changed July 22, 2003 - so it appears that they were forced to make the change and only sort of let it be known. Wonder what is going on?
Well, until then, I will keep using Firebird. But for those migrating - another positive is that 1.5alpha is 1.4 Mbs smaller.
Thanks for the suggestion. I appreciate it and will be giving it a try.
Exactly. People need to realize this. I started with Slashdot (learning some interesting tech stuff), read about Mozilla (at home - here at work, I am stuck with IE) and so I tried that, then figured that I would give OpenOffice a try (when it reach 1.0.1), and finally I have now have given Redhat a shot (in a duel boot setting). While I always thought Linux would be interesting to try out, it wasn't until most of what I did already (Internet and Office Apps) migrated from MS to OSS in Windows that I was ready to try Linux.
I think this may be the way that Linux can convince more people to move over. Show them they do not need MS and in fact can get better options from other sources. Then boom switch their desktop.
Now I just need to learn MySQL and then I will have no need for MS again.
True, but many of the people with AOL like having no control of the internet. To my parents (I didn't allow it before I left for college) just wanted AOL. It tells you when you have email. It tells you where to find your news, where to shop, and constantly gives you help and advice. They just didn't want to take the time to figure things out on there own. So AOL is providing what many of their customers probably want.
Thankfully, for my sanity when I come home, my father has finally begun to use Netscape 7 (he's not quite ready for a browser he has never heard of) and shop at stores online other than those that AOL recommends. Give the users time, they will eventually agree with your comments. But not until they get over their fear of the great big Internet. Baby steps.
I have seen people do this at college with books they did not want to buy. They simply found the old work online and printed the whole thing. One guy told me that way he could choose the font and size and so it was easier to read. And there was always enough paper laying around to do so.
Personally I don't think it is worth the trouble to print entire works, especially considering that a book seems pretty reasonably priced (figure that 800 pages will take about 8 hours at an hour per 100 pages) the price I paid was 2 dollars an hour. Compare that with a movie purchase or CD purchase. Not to mention the quality difference and I think consumers of Harry Potter are happy to pay for it while they are not for the crap that the Hulk was. However, there are a few works (higher priced for a class I did not want to take) that I would be interested in doing so in the future.
So while your point about printing is a downgrade in quality makes sense, if the price rises enough, I think it would be a distinct possibility that more online book swapping would occur.
OK, so he didn't put anything about the article, does that justify posting the whole article here? It is not going to be slashdotted (if it is, the NYTimes is in a lot more trouble than I thought) and if what Michael said would not get someone to go read the article than this will not make it more likely to be read.
Why not simply help Michael out by giving the summary he could have made? Such as, "As technology advances the chances for government's foul use grow. Satallite imagery is beginning to be used for spying on common citizens without a warrant. This could be used to track down terrorists or those pesky hackers. For once I agree with Judge Scalia's position..." or something along these lines. For gosh sakes, don't try to karma whore and then not add anything to the discussion or do more work than Michael did.
CPU Bach was actually only available on 3D0. According to Gamespot a while back this was due to the sound quality of the 3D0 compared to the Sound Blaster sound cards of the time (1993). More here
This article also has interesting quotes as to why Sid even bothered with this 'game.' The reason to Sid was that it followed just after he completed Civilization and he did not want to try and top himself with every game. Instead he found trying to make a program that created Bach music much more relaxing and a fun effort.
This is not a Sid Meier game. It is a Brian Reynolds game (the man that designed Civ II and SMAC). Got a lot of faith in him and this one is going to be good.
About the colors, have you gone to games.slashdot.org or have you just read this article? If you haven't done the first, try it and see if you like all the bars with the bluish purple metallic look. It is not something I am personally fond of. And then trying to read through all these messages with the links in that color is not appealing. It would be really nice if the shade was either lighter or darker.
However, if you read the write up at the top of the page and what the moderator said ("from the free-money-programs-but-no-free-money dept.") then you would get the idea that it was free.
Not to mention that if you read the article it never gives a price. In fact, it states "I filled out the information on their free download link and that took me to the instruction page." It was not until I read the comments of the review that I first learned it was not a free product. I can easily forgive this person for not realizing it - the editors of Slashdot made it seem like it was a free Linux product. I know that is what I understood until I read the fine print of the article.
I like what you are attempting to say but you are missing one important point, Hummer Winblad took the legal liability in investing. This quote from the article reads:
"In May 2000, Hummer Winblad invested about $13 million in Napster and took control of its business and legal liabilities, with [Hank] Barry [general partner of Hummer Winblad] assuming an interim CEO role"
Now I am unsure why a company would take control of Napster's legal liablilites when they knew that it had a lot of music infringing going on (here could be there case saying they had no idea) but the article clearly states that in the deal Hummer Winbland took legal liability. So I would have to think the RIAA probably has a really good case to stand on since Napster was already ordered shut down and Hummer Winbland is legally responsible.
There isn't any way that the NY Times is going to be slashdotted. Mod this parent down, what a waste of a post and of the flow of the conversation. As has been pointed out countless times there is a ring around their subscription service and even that in my opinion should now be modded down as repetitive.
If you look at the address if any article linked through news.google.com you will see '&partner=GOOGLE'. NYTimes Online probably has a number of partners that going through give you free access without the registration. Not sure if you can simply take an article and add the partner thing to see if I can get through (I already have preregistered so it has no effect) but some one else should give it a shot.
I agree, I was going to moderate them as such but I thought posting this one brief thought was more important. Why instead of posting an apology that this is a duplicate, did the story instead simply be removed from the front page? They could have put it under some other heading and killed the feeding frenzy of it on the first page. It just seems like that would have been a better way to deal with this instead of letting something take the place of some other worthy story.
Should have been from the "days-old-news-bin."
Seriously, this was announced days ago. Seems that if the Slashdot community really cared about this, it would have already been posted. But I guess today must have been an extremely slow news day for this "everyone knew it was going to come out sooner or later" to make the front page.
You are missing the point, a company using spam is doing so to make money. To make money he has to sell a product or a service. So, if he was off shores sending spam, the product he was selling would have to be shipped into the country where it could then be seized. Going offshore would not be an evolution for a spammer, it would be the end of their business model since they still need to sell the service or product. Thus making spam illegal would end spam.