I have a dual-head (both 17") and a Toshiba (15") laptop. Both constrain me.
The desktop constrains me because I cannot just sit back and work. The dual-desktop constrains me because I have a smaller view of the world AND it lacks an ergonomic keyboard (kudos to Acer for addressing this issue).
As others have pointed out, I think that a wide screen laptop would be an improvement. Though, I believe we need software that create "virtual monitors" inside existing modules. This would be handy on widescreen AND traditional style monitors.
Also, more software needs to become aware of multiple monitor machines. My prime examples are AvantGo and Visual Studio. AvantGo rocks for managing multiple web pages. However, sometimes you'd like to spread out a bit. You could maximize to the entire desktop but it's not aware of the screens and will not automatically put two documents side by side.
Likewise, Visual Studio won't recognize screen boundries and automatically optimize. Visual studio itself has excellent tools for organizing on a single screen. There new tab pane interface is excellent. I manage to drag toolbars off onto the other screen, that helps. I've also tried using a screen and a half placing three panes across a full monitor and half of the other. Visual Studio tends to mess up the orientation when switching from debug to non-debug modes.
Ultimately, I think that software needs to become more screen aware. It needs to create discreet containers for each display and manage the flow across those containers so contiguous items aren't spread across two displays. for example, one could organize toolbars and MDI windows so they only appear on a single display (both AvantGo and Visual Studio could use this).
Furthermore, I think we need the concept of a "virtual monitor" (multiple monitors on one physical monitor) so it's easy to create a workspace layout and maximize windows into those virtual spaces instead of requiring one carefully lay out the windows every time (Visual Studio's document interface is very similar to this). Dragging a maximized app from one virtual monitor to another would automatically maximize it on the new source. This way I can easily manage to keep my TV application free and clear from any other interruption;-).
Now our technology is THEIR technology. They're buying up defense sub-contractors and shipping them off to China.
The latest casualty is Rare-Earth magnet supplies. A local manufacturer here in Valparaiso was bought by Magnaquench. Now magnaquench has closed the factory and is shipping the entire opertion off to China. Magnaquench produced 80% of the rare-earth magnets used in smart-bombs.
If your using a DV style recorder, the solution is simple. Use a video editing program and DELETE the frames with the large brown spots. The DivX encoders will then be able to quickly recover.
I will not be surprised if hackers are at work writing scrubbers that will automatically identify and remove these frames.
The resulting quality with a missing frame should be somewhat improved over a frame with a large brown spot.
One more point. I guess the Tyler Durden methodology of subliminal communication will not work with modern encoding algorithms. That is, splicing single frames of pornography into Disney films.;-)
I wonder how much of that R&D goes to hardware. Is Sun playing a catch up game with Intel that it can't possibly win???
If Sun decided to move towards standardized hardware sets, couldn't they turn alot of their in-house R&D into profit??
Finally, I'm not sure I trust any corporate numbers any-more. Spending money on R&D warrants tax writeoffs. Companies have a definite incentive to "cheat" by mislabeling non R&D spending.
The processor divisions are absolute ANCHORS around Sun's neck. The days of everyone on their own CPU are long since DEAD!!!!
Sun would do much better to make an alliance with one of the three remaining profitable CPU producers:
Intel IBM AMD
They need to aggressively move into more standardized computer architectures. If they need to, sell of their division to whoever they partner with. Ask specifically for a CPU that can run SPARC instructions AND x86 (or perhaps PowerPC) instructions set. Strongly consider the AMD64.
Aggressively move new business into a Solarnux (Linux/Solaris) world. Solaris is now a brand name adorning their enterprise grade Wintel PCs.
Consider merging with Silicon Graphics. Yep, SGI has effectively the same problems as Sun. They both need to aggresively move from hardware to services in order to survive. They could form a common platform and merge their loyal user bases.
Wintel chipsets should be part of Sun's business strategy. Sun has produced some massively parrallell hardware. This is applicable to the enterprise PC market.
Contribute heavily to Wine. Make sure it works really well on Sun Solarnux boxes. This makes Sun a good alternative to Windows.
Start charging for Java. Use Microsoft's licensing strategies for dotnet.
Continue using SPARC processors for top tier workstation users. Leverage partnerships to produce a SPARC/Wintel Hybrid CPU for next gen SPARC to x86 transition.
Even if they became a cheap %100 Linux company the profit margins would be slim
Well, if you haven't checked, Sun now enjoys large profit margins. NEGATIVE ones. Slim profits would be a nice change.
Seriously, Sun has a boatload of money wound up in delivering a proprietary hardware set. It's benefits over an Intel architecture is questionable. Sun got big by selling webservers, now Wintel hardware is taking over.
To survive, Sun must go with the flow. A robust Software platform running on top of linux. They must do a lot of services.
BTW, everyone always hypes the "free" aspect of Java. Waddaya wanna bet that Java ceases to be "free" in the next couple years??? Java isn't standardized. It's still very much a proprietary product that has been given away to date.
Yes, I do realize that a lot of open-source replacements would quickly follow, but in the meantime, Sun will have a lot of developers by the balls.
We all laugh as we observe SCO in it's death-throws. Well, what will Sun look like as it burns out????? Sun actually HAS some serious IP to yank around in the form of Java.
Simply install a second network card and attach these services there. It doesn't matter if it's not hooked up to anything, you can direct clients there on the local machine.
I'm sure that if your doing something really important that a professor will make appropriate resources available on lab machines.
Steve Jobs hung around his friend Steve Wozniak... who was a phone phreaker. Jobs was the businessman who started marketing (discreetly) the boxes that WOZ built.
Rush Limbaugh exercises and undue share of speach on a daily basis. When Rush deeply offended 1/2 of the ESPN audience (minorities and civil minded whites) with his little diatribe, he was asked to leave as his presence would end up losing ESPN money.
No one can sue Rush Limbaugh for what he said. Thats free speech. However, Rush does have to live with the consequences of that speech and the people that he alienated through his typical thoughtless, paranoid blather.
Oh yeah, and we DO have separation of church and state. Remember the whole "Ten Commandments" Georgia courthouse kiosk case. Even this extreme court couldn't abide such a flagrant violation. Last time I checked it was still improper for schools to sanction religious activities.
Our laws are influenced by religious concepts. But it's not solely directed by them. There are no court cases charging that US law is wrong because only TWO of the ten commandments (theft, murder) are now reflected in standing law.
If they have a standard Anti-Virus (McAfee, Symantec) program that "phones home" that's OK. If they remotely scanning files from another computer, then thats bad.
I doubt that students will get free broadband if they move off-campus (if they can get broadband at all).
Beyond that, there are likely ways to secure regions of your computer against scanning (via user account privleges (in Win2000/XP)).
You can buy a PocketPC for as little as $200. A graphing calculator can be had for as little as $70. If you can emulate a top of the line calculator, ($170) the cost may be worth it.
Laws against harassment, stalking and restraining orders are based on the right to be "left alone" when you explicitely ask. Technically, it's not an invasion of privacy, it's an assault, or theft of your "personal space".
As in most issues, one weighs the rights of two parties as to their relative strength and relation to the overall well being of society. In this case, your explicit expressed wish to be "left alone" out-weighs cheap, crass commercialisim that is effectively "trespassing" in your private space (property law).
You do NOT fuck with judges. Harrassing a judge, ESPECIALLY about a legal judgement he made, will get you into some SERIOUS shit.
This is an ironic statement since the "Do Not Call List" is designed to allow individuals to stop unwanted harassment. Beyond that a simple call is NOT against the law.
Beyond that, one could simply call from a telephone booth. Make it 1-800-CALL-ATT to make it even more anoyying and avoid charges;-) The telephone lighting up permanently before being SHUT OFF seems like a pretty clear message.
I agree with the DNC List, but the judge is probably right that it should have come out of the FCC.
Congress makes the law. Congress created the "Don Not Call" list. Congress created the FCC.
In this case, a judge has no right to override Congress on their own law based soley upon another artifact of congressional law: The FCC. Congress has the right to be inconsistent and such inconsistency is presumed to represent a change in the law.
This type of communication (not all talking is "speech") more closely approximates harrassment then freedom of expression.
For example, one could claim that a good old boy constantly making sexual suggestions to a secretary is "free speech". However, if the conduct is unsolicited unwanted, and explicitely asked to stop, you've interfered with the right of your unwilling audience. Likewise, the members of the "do not call list" have EXPLICITELY declared that they don't want to receive these phone calls. Any further phone calls are acts of harrassment.
If your for telemarketers, your for Clarence Thomas. I expect if this issue reaches the high court, Thomas will jubilantly cast his vote for harrassment.... errrr 'free speech' I mean.
Actually the 3 panel was correct, in the decision of bush v gore (or how to steal a country, go from a budget SURPLUS to an AMAZING deficit that even bush Sr. never reached, and start a holy war...) the supreme court (voting along party lines) said much the same thing as the 3 judge panel. Face it people, justice in america is now up for sale, start the bidding at 1m and work your way up. "Stop repeat offenders, don't re-elect them"
I kinda wondered what the ACLU's issue in this case was until I heard them dangle "Equal Protection Clause". Ahh, Florida 2000.
I thought this is inevitable that seriously legal minded organizations would start filing contrary lawsuits using the "2000 Bush Argument" just to show how lame-brained and hypocritcial the whole situation was. The irony is that had the Supreme Court actually issued a ruling instead of an editorial, the appeals court would have been bound to uphold the 3-judge panel as it would be consistent with "Bush vs Gore".
Statistically, it WILL happen. It turns out that punch cards (as any 60/70s era computer student will attest to) are pretty unreliable and prone to errors.
They put an injucntion on it. Likely so they could study the issue more in depth.
I can see the points of both parties involved. There were two conflicting issues in law, one a California constitutional issue, the other a federal constitutional issue, the Equal Protection Clause.
There is a profound problem with US law right now. When voters are deprived of their civil rights, their is no avenue for remedy. Courts will overturn elections due to ballot fraud. But they won't overturn elections when hundreds of thousands of Americans are being deprived of their civil liberty of voting.
The pre-emptive challenge of DELAYING elections when their is a known and proven problem with voting and counting apparatus is a reasonable strategy to FORCE changes in the system. Their is no remedy possible "after the fact".
Deep down their is another issue at play here. The Bush camp scurrisly used the Equal Protection Clause to support the widespread dis-enfranchisement of voters in Florida. Many civil liberties organizations are reasonably pissed about the ultimate verdict (which was really a non-verdict) and are intent on hammering this judicial point until the conservative advocate judges of the Federalist Society are forced to yield their shaky legal interpretation.
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I have a dual-head (both 17") and a Toshiba (15") laptop. Both constrain me.
;-).
The desktop constrains me because I cannot just sit back and work. The dual-desktop constrains me because I have a smaller view of the world AND it lacks an ergonomic keyboard (kudos to Acer for addressing this issue).
As others have pointed out, I think that a wide screen laptop would be an improvement. Though, I believe we need software that create "virtual monitors" inside existing modules. This would be handy on widescreen AND traditional style monitors.
Also, more software needs to become aware of multiple monitor machines. My prime examples are AvantGo and Visual Studio. AvantGo rocks for managing multiple web pages. However, sometimes you'd like to spread out a bit. You could maximize to the entire desktop but it's not aware of the screens and will not automatically put two documents side by side.
Likewise, Visual Studio won't recognize screen boundries and automatically optimize. Visual studio itself has excellent tools for organizing on a single screen. There new tab pane interface is excellent. I manage to drag toolbars off onto the other screen, that helps. I've also tried using a screen and a half placing three panes across a full monitor and half of the other. Visual Studio tends to mess up the orientation when switching from debug to non-debug modes.
Ultimately, I think that software needs to become more screen aware. It needs to create discreet containers for each display and manage the flow across those containers so contiguous items aren't spread across two displays. for example, one could organize toolbars and MDI windows so they only appear on a single display (both AvantGo and Visual Studio could use this).
Furthermore, I think we need the concept of a "virtual monitor" (multiple monitors on one physical monitor) so it's easy to create a workspace layout and maximize windows into those virtual spaces instead of requiring one carefully lay out the windows every time (Visual Studio's document interface is very similar to this). Dragging a maximized app from one virtual monitor to another would automatically maximize it on the new source. This way I can easily manage to keep my TV application free and clear from any other interruption
You obviously haven't heard of Free Trade.
Now our technology is THEIR technology. They're buying up defense sub-contractors and shipping them off to China.
The latest casualty is Rare-Earth magnet supplies. A local manufacturer here in Valparaiso was bought by Magnaquench. Now magnaquench has closed the factory and is shipping the entire opertion off to China. Magnaquench produced 80% of the rare-earth magnets used in smart-bombs.
If your using a DV style recorder, the solution is simple. Use a video editing program and DELETE the frames with the large brown spots. The DivX encoders will then be able to quickly recover.
;-)
I will not be surprised if hackers are at work writing scrubbers that will automatically identify and remove these frames.
The resulting quality with a missing frame should be somewhat improved over a frame with a large brown spot.
One more point. I guess the Tyler Durden methodology of subliminal communication will not work with modern encoding algorithms. That is, splicing single frames of pornography into Disney films.
Or you could use 1-800-Collect.
You probably won't get through, but you'll burn their time nonetheless.
Don't forget about Dual-BIOS motherboards. One could be a WinBIOS, the other a Linux BIOS.
I wonder how much of that R&D goes to hardware. Is Sun playing a catch up game with Intel that it can't possibly win???
If Sun decided to move towards standardized hardware sets, couldn't they turn alot of their in-house R&D into profit??
Finally, I'm not sure I trust any corporate numbers any-more. Spending money on R&D warrants tax writeoffs. Companies have a definite incentive to "cheat" by mislabeling non R&D spending.
The processor divisions are absolute ANCHORS around Sun's neck. The days of everyone on their own CPU are long since DEAD!!!!
Sun would do much better to make an alliance with one of the three remaining profitable CPU producers:
Intel
IBM
AMD
They need to aggressively move into more standardized computer architectures. If they need to, sell of their division to whoever they partner with. Ask specifically for a CPU that can run SPARC instructions AND x86 (or perhaps PowerPC) instructions set. Strongly consider the AMD64.
Aggressively move new business into a Solarnux (Linux/Solaris) world. Solaris is now a brand name adorning their enterprise grade Wintel PCs.
Consider merging with Silicon Graphics. Yep, SGI has effectively the same problems as Sun. They both need to aggresively move from hardware to services in order to survive. They could form a common platform and merge their loyal user bases.
Wintel chipsets should be part of Sun's business strategy. Sun has produced some massively parrallell hardware. This is applicable to the enterprise PC market.
Contribute heavily to Wine. Make sure it works really well on Sun Solarnux boxes. This makes Sun a good alternative to Windows.
Start charging for Java. Use Microsoft's licensing strategies for dotnet.
Continue using SPARC processors for top tier workstation users. Leverage partnerships to produce a SPARC/Wintel Hybrid CPU for next gen SPARC to x86 transition.
Even if they became a cheap %100 Linux company the profit margins would be slim
Well, if you haven't checked, Sun now enjoys large profit margins. NEGATIVE ones. Slim profits would be a nice change.
Seriously, Sun has a boatload of money wound up in delivering a proprietary hardware set. It's benefits over an Intel architecture is questionable. Sun got big by selling webservers, now Wintel hardware is taking over.
To survive, Sun must go with the flow. A robust Software platform running on top of linux. They must do a lot of services.
BTW, everyone always hypes the "free" aspect of Java. Waddaya wanna bet that Java ceases to be "free" in the next couple years??? Java isn't standardized. It's still very much a proprietary product that has been given away to date.
Yes, I do realize that a lot of open-source replacements would quickly follow, but in the meantime, Sun will have a lot of developers by the balls.
We all laugh as we observe SCO in it's death-throws. Well, what will Sun look like as it burns out????? Sun actually HAS some serious IP to yank around in the form of Java.
Simply install a second network card and attach these services there. It doesn't matter if it's not hooked up to anything, you can direct clients there on the local machine.
I'm sure that if your doing something really important that a professor will make appropriate resources available on lab machines.
Steve Jobs was a phone phreaker
... who was a phone phreaker. Jobs was the businessman who started marketing (discreetly) the boxes that WOZ built.
Steve Jobs hung around his friend Steve Wozniak
For that matter, going to University X State is optional as well. You could choose Y State University to find thinks better to your liking.
Honestly people, education DID occur before pervasive internet connections.
If the student has a telephone, they are able to dial into local ISPs. It's not a monopoly.
Rush Limbaugh exercises and undue share of speach on a daily basis. When Rush deeply offended 1/2 of the ESPN audience (minorities and civil minded whites) with his little diatribe, he was asked to leave as his presence would end up losing ESPN money.
No one can sue Rush Limbaugh for what he said. Thats free speech. However, Rush does have to live with the consequences of that speech and the people that he alienated through his typical thoughtless, paranoid blather.
Oh yeah, and we DO have separation of church and state. Remember the whole "Ten Commandments" Georgia courthouse kiosk case. Even this extreme court couldn't abide such a flagrant violation. Last time I checked it was still improper for schools to sanction religious activities.
Our laws are influenced by religious concepts. But it's not solely directed by them. There are no court cases charging that US law is wrong because only TWO of the ten commandments (theft, murder) are now reflected in standing law.
That depends on how they're doing it.
If they have a standard Anti-Virus (McAfee, Symantec) program that "phones home" that's OK. If they remotely scanning files from another computer, then thats bad.
I doubt that students will get free broadband if they move off-campus (if they can get broadband at all).
Beyond that, there are likely ways to secure regions of your computer against scanning (via user account privleges (in Win2000/XP)).
Almost true.
You can buy a PocketPC for as little as $200. A graphing calculator can be had for as little as $70. If you can emulate a top of the line calculator, ($170) the cost may be worth it.
I'm native Polish you insensitive clod.
Are you reverse and notated as well ?-)
May I retort????
Laws against harassment, stalking and restraining orders are based on the right to be "left alone" when you explicitely ask. Technically, it's not an invasion of privacy, it's an assault, or theft of your "personal space".
As in most issues, one weighs the rights of two parties as to their relative strength and relation to the overall well being of society. In this case, your explicit expressed wish to be "left alone" out-weighs cheap, crass commercialisim that is effectively "trespassing" in your private space (property law).
Don't kid yourself, there are more than a few judges willing to legislate from the bench.
Especially the one's who publicly denounce the practice.
The number one virtue of the right-wing: hypocrisy!!!
HA, excellent angle. Perhaps everyone could claim to collect for a charity AGAINST telemarketing. The irony is positively pardoxical.
You do NOT fuck with judges. Harrassing a judge, ESPECIALLY about a legal judgement he made, will get you into some SERIOUS shit.
;-) The telephone lighting up permanently before being SHUT OFF seems like a pretty clear message.
This is an ironic statement since the "Do Not Call List" is designed to allow individuals to stop unwanted harassment. Beyond that a simple call is NOT against the law.
Beyond that, one could simply call from a telephone booth. Make it 1-800-CALL-ATT to make it even more anoyying and avoid charges
I agree with the DNC List, but the judge is probably right that it should have come out of the FCC.
Congress makes the law. Congress created the "Don Not Call" list. Congress created the FCC.
In this case, a judge has no right to override Congress on their own law based soley upon another artifact of congressional law: The FCC. Congress has the right to be inconsistent and such inconsistency is presumed to represent a change in the law.
This type of communication (not all talking is "speech") more closely approximates harrassment then freedom of expression.
.... errrr 'free speech' I mean.
For example, one could claim that a good old boy constantly making sexual suggestions to a secretary is "free speech". However, if the conduct is unsolicited unwanted, and explicitely asked to stop, you've interfered with the right of your unwilling audience. Likewise, the members of the "do not call list" have EXPLICITELY declared that they don't want to receive these phone calls. Any further phone calls are acts of harrassment.
If your for telemarketers, your for Clarence Thomas. I expect if this issue reaches the high court, Thomas will jubilantly cast his vote for harrassment
Actually the 3 panel was correct, in the decision of bush v gore (or how to steal a country, go from a budget SURPLUS to an AMAZING deficit that even bush Sr. never reached, and start a holy war...) the supreme court (voting along party lines) said much the same thing as the 3 judge panel. Face it people, justice in america is now up for sale, start the bidding at 1m and work your way up. "Stop repeat offenders, don't re-elect them"
I kinda wondered what the ACLU's issue in this case was until I heard them dangle "Equal Protection Clause". Ahh, Florida 2000.
I thought this is inevitable that seriously legal minded organizations would start filing contrary lawsuits using the "2000 Bush Argument" just to show how lame-brained and hypocritcial the whole situation was. The irony is that had the Supreme Court actually issued a ruling instead of an editorial, the appeals court would have been bound to uphold the 3-judge panel as it would be consistent with "Bush vs Gore".
Statistically, it WILL happen. It turns out that punch cards (as any 60/70s era computer student will attest to) are pretty unreliable and prone to errors.
They put an injucntion on it. Likely so they could study the issue more in depth.
I can see the points of both parties involved. There were two conflicting issues in law, one a California constitutional issue, the other a federal constitutional issue, the Equal Protection Clause.
There is a profound problem with US law right now. When voters are deprived of their civil rights, their is no avenue for remedy. Courts will overturn elections due to ballot fraud. But they won't overturn elections when hundreds of thousands of Americans are being deprived of their civil liberty of voting.
The pre-emptive challenge of DELAYING elections when their is a known and proven problem with voting and counting apparatus is a reasonable strategy to FORCE changes in the system. Their is no remedy possible "after the fact".
Deep down their is another issue at play here. The Bush camp scurrisly used the Equal Protection Clause to support the widespread dis-enfranchisement of voters in Florida. Many civil liberties organizations are reasonably pissed about the ultimate verdict (which was really a non-verdict) and are intent on hammering this judicial point until the conservative advocate judges of the Federalist Society are forced to yield their shaky legal interpretation.