my iPaq h6315 does all that, and it has the camera (okay, the camera is totally useless) as well as being my phone! One single device to remember to put in my pocket, and all my digital goodies are available to me at all times! From what I can tell, PPCs and PPC phones aren't selling all that well, but I sure hope they keep working at it. I can imagine in another generation or two they'll have them with faster processors, better screens (we're already seeing ones with VGA res), better cameras, better, more usable software, etc. They really are the coolest handheld devices out there.
So you argue against anti-counterfeiting measures by demonstrating that current efforts are insufficient? Thanks for proving my point! Anyway, sophisticated counterfeiting like the Iranians buying actual engraving equipment, and issues with personnel within the bureau of engraving are completely different problems from small-time counterfeiters using home printing equipment, which these measures are intended to address.
In any case, as I stated originally, this in no way limits your freedom other than the freedom to print high-quality color documents anonymously, and only tinfoil hat-types would seriously think this is going to be used for anything other than linking counterfeiters to their product. And maybe you should read up on Trotsky. Just because he was a communist doesn't mean he was a bad guy. In fact, most of the evil people associate with communism stems from Stalin, whom Trotsky opposed so vehemently and was seen as such a threat to as to get him deported and eventually assassinated.
Ah, but you see this only eliminates the anonymity of color desktop publishing. So, you'll have to write your revolutionary manifestos in B&W. Big deal. I'll give up anonymous color printing in order to have my money be worth something (at least until our impending inflation crisis hits), thanks.
Yes- the government works for the people. It's in my best interest that my money retains its value, and that counterfeiting be made as highly risky and easily traceable as reasonably possible. Having a unique mark on things that come from my printer hardly constitutes an invasion of privacy, in my mind. Perhaps a subtle infringement of my anonymity, but I can't think of any information I would be printing for which anonymity would be paramount that can ONLY be printed with a color laser printer. If I'm publishing some treasonous revolutionary manifesto that is likely to get me killed, I guess I'll have to do it in B&W. Shucks.
so pay with cash, if you're that paranoid. or do you think they have secret tracking mechanisms in the paper money, too?
What exactly is the scenario you're afraid of? Look at all the shit that has to happen in order for someone to use something like this for nefarious purposes. 1)You buy printer at store with credit card 2)Store has to be one that scans printer SN and stores it with your CC info 3)Store has to share info with law enforcement people, who would have to then use your printer's SN to forge some incriminating document so that they can then link it to you. Or maybe 3)Store shares info with your political opponent, who then starts printing up counterfeit money with your printer's SN encoded in it? Or maybe 3)Someone breaks into store's DB, and steals printer SN's?
Exactly who are you that you think people would go to such great lengths to frame you, when there are a million other, easier ways to set you up? Why not just do your printing at Kinko's or some shit? Go paperless. WTF, I don't care.
you could make the boards out of clear acrylic and the conductors out of transparent aluminum. i don't know how well that would work, but it would look pretty cool- your computer could look like a bunch of chips, resistors, and other little electronic components floating in clear plastic/aluminum...
simple- the dots around the center dot on the odd-numbered sides greater than one are like the petals around the center of a flower. makes perfect sense, considering that is what you are counting...
The best way to approach the situation is for us humans to do everything we can to minimize our effect on the environment. We know that for the millions of years before we had the capacity to make any significant impact, the environment managed to remain fairly stable, aside from the usual cyclical stuff. It is reasonable, then, to expect continued stability if we remain as environmentally benign as possible. We may indeed have nothing to do with global warming -it may be part of Earth's natural cycle or some other factor of non-human origin- but it's foolish to think that acting as we currently do won't eventually make a significant impact on the environment, and being the chaotic systems that the global environment and ecosystem are, it's foolish to think we can predict what effect it will have. Sure, it's silly to run around exclaiming "we're doomed!", but it's no better to bury one's head in the sand and ignore the fact that there is a real possibility of serious consequences should we continue our present course. If we wait for it to be undeniably obvious that bad things are happening, it may be too late to do anything about it. Why be in such a big hurry for "progress" (or to get all our shiny noisy crap) when we can take our time, do things the right way, and not risk premanently screwing up our world?
Yeah, same problem here- the best I've found here in Houston is about a 79% match. They were pretty cool, too, but 90% girl was way more what I'm looking for. There just aren't enough people using it, so I try to mention it anytime it's relevant to do so. I can't believe people actually pay money for sites like match.com and lavalife when OKCupid does the same thing a thousand times better for free.
Check out OKCupid.com. They have a phenomenal statistical matching algorithm. It's not going to tell you if there's physical attraction, or if there's romantic chemistry, but the people I've met on there that it said would be good matches for me really WERE my type, and not just on the basic stuff most dating websites consider (i.e., body type, religious preferences, etc). Their system collects so MUCH information -questions submitted by users that go far beyond the basics- and it weighs all of it properly- it really does an excellent job.
I met up with a girl from there last week when I was in NYC because it said she was a 90% match, which was the highest of all the users in their system. She was TOTALLY the kind of girl that I'd want to date, and we really got along well. Now if only I lived in NYC...:)
I'm tired of people associating reading with thinking. I could be reading trash romance or crime novels all day long, and I could be watching the News Hour, or Nova, or something even more educational/thought-provoking on TV. The association between reading and knowledge is a holdout from the days when reading was pretty much the only way to get information beyond your immediate surroundings.
Granted, most programming on TV is trash and the big problem with TV is that the user has very little choice as to what they get to see, but most books published these days are no better and technolgies like DVRs and the internet are giving people more and more choices all the time.
Besides that, there is a great deal of information which is better communicated visually than using the written word. Is someone who casually read a book about the civil war really any more knowledgeable about the subject than someone who watched the Ken Burns documentary and some shows on the History Channel? I doubt it. Is someone who has read descriptions and looked at diagrams of how the human heart works more informed than someone who has seen video and animations of it? Not likely at all.
I've always thought it would be cool if Apple made a completely sealed, solid-state iPod. It would need inductive charging built in, as well as wireless bluetooth headphones. I'm not sure if a standard exists for it, but there also needs to be a very short-range (i.e., through the inductive charger) high-bandwidth wireless data transfer protocol. How cool would it be to have a waterproof iPod nano? Maybe someday they'll evolve into equally slim, sealed and lightweight tablets.
You're forgetting one huge thing that self-driving cars could do for us- automated deliveries. Once we have cars that can drive themselves, I would think it could very quickly follow that we might have stores which only exist online and deliver items to us via automated courier. It's convenient for us, protects the retailer's merchandise and saves them the overhead of making a physical store a customer-friendly experience. We might even have automated garages allow delivery vehicles to enter, drop off materials, and then leave. The efficiency gains for society would be enormous.
Yeah, but how do you know that WebSideStory's numbers aren't taken from sites that attract mostly Windows-only users? For all we know, some of the sites that they monitor could exclude all non-IE browsers.
That seems highly unlikely, given that many of WSS's customers are large global corporations that have big, professionally-created websites- Disney, Best Buy, Fox News, Bank of America, Freddie Mac- a wide range of clients in a variety of sectors. Surely some of their sites exclude non-IE browsers, but they are unlikely to make a significant difference in WSS's numbers.
But my point was not that WebSideStory's numbers are accurate, although by the fact that it is their business to know this kind of stuff and they seem to have been around a while I tend to believe them, but merely that the visitors to your site are not likely to be anywhere near a representative sample of the internet at large. There's lotsofinfoouttherethatseems to corroborate WSS's numbers. Your little window on the world is nowhere near the big picture that WSS is seeing.
Google used to list this stuff in their zeitgeist, but they seem to have stopped that. Too bad...
I doubt the people who visit your page, which appears to be oriented toward the OSS/Linux/Geek community, are a representative sample of the entire web. They're exactly the kind of people who wouldn't be using IE, either because they're using Linux or a Mac, or because they're Windows 'power users'. Methinks WebSideStory's data is a lot more likely to reflect the mainstream web viewership.
While your point #2 sorta addresses it, it should be noted that probably the greatest thing about E-ink is that it's a true reflective display, which means it works great in sunlight (unlike just about every LCD out there) and is generally easier on the eyes. My theory is that the eyes have a much harder time with light emitting displays because they are so rarely the same brightness as everything else in the room, which means the iris is constantly having to adjust. It is for similar reasons that I can't stand using my computer in a dark room. Without the sunglasses, that is:P
i don't think sandpaper is what you want. probably diamond dust. my grandmother, who deals in antique glass, uses this thing that looks like an eraser that has diamond dust embedded in it. You just rub it on a scratched area and it smooths it right out.
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my iPaq h6315 does all that, and it has the camera (okay, the camera is totally useless) as well as being my phone! One single device to remember to put in my pocket, and all my digital goodies are available to me at all times! From what I can tell, PPCs and PPC phones aren't selling all that well, but I sure hope they keep working at it. I can imagine in another generation or two they'll have them with faster processors, better screens (we're already seeing ones with VGA res), better cameras, better, more usable software, etc. They really are the coolest handheld devices out there.
So you argue against anti-counterfeiting measures by demonstrating that current efforts are insufficient? Thanks for proving my point! Anyway, sophisticated counterfeiting like the Iranians buying actual engraving equipment, and issues with personnel within the bureau of engraving are completely different problems from small-time counterfeiters using home printing equipment, which these measures are intended to address.
In any case, as I stated originally, this in no way limits your freedom other than the freedom to print high-quality color documents anonymously, and only tinfoil hat-types would seriously think this is going to be used for anything other than linking counterfeiters to their product. And maybe you should read up on Trotsky. Just because he was a communist doesn't mean he was a bad guy. In fact, most of the evil people associate with communism stems from Stalin, whom Trotsky opposed so vehemently and was seen as such a threat to as to get him deported and eventually assassinated.
Ah, but you see this only eliminates the anonymity of color desktop publishing. So, you'll have to write your revolutionary manifestos in B&W. Big deal. I'll give up anonymous color printing in order to have my money be worth something (at least until our impending inflation crisis hits), thanks.
Yes- the government works for the people. It's in my best interest that my money retains its value, and that counterfeiting be made as highly risky and easily traceable as reasonably possible. Having a unique mark on things that come from my printer hardly constitutes an invasion of privacy, in my mind. Perhaps a subtle infringement of my anonymity, but I can't think of any information I would be printing for which anonymity would be paramount that can ONLY be printed with a color laser printer. If I'm publishing some treasonous revolutionary manifesto that is likely to get me killed, I guess I'll have to do it in B&W. Shucks.
so pay with cash, if you're that paranoid. or do you think they have secret tracking mechanisms in the paper money, too?
What exactly is the scenario you're afraid of? Look at all the shit that has to happen in order for someone to use something like this for nefarious purposes. 1)You buy printer at store with credit card 2)Store has to be one that scans printer SN and stores it with your CC info 3)Store has to share info with law enforcement people, who would have to then use your printer's SN to forge some incriminating document so that they can then link it to you. Or maybe 3)Store shares info with your political opponent, who then starts printing up counterfeit money with your printer's SN encoded in it? Or maybe 3)Someone breaks into store's DB, and steals printer SN's?
Exactly who are you that you think people would go to such great lengths to frame you, when there are a million other, easier ways to set you up? Why not just do your printing at Kinko's or some shit? Go paperless. WTF, I don't care.
you could make the boards out of clear acrylic and the conductors out of transparent aluminum. i don't know how well that would work, but it would look pretty cool- your computer could look like a bunch of chips, resistors, and other little electronic components floating in clear plastic/aluminum...
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
simple- the dots around the center dot on the odd-numbered sides greater than one are like the petals around the center of a flower. makes perfect sense, considering that is what you are counting...
The best way to approach the situation is for us humans to do everything we can to minimize our effect on the environment. We know that for the millions of years before we had the capacity to make any significant impact, the environment managed to remain fairly stable, aside from the usual cyclical stuff. It is reasonable, then, to expect continued stability if we remain as environmentally benign as possible. We may indeed have nothing to do with global warming -it may be part of Earth's natural cycle or some other factor of non-human origin- but it's foolish to think that acting as we currently do won't eventually make a significant impact on the environment, and being the chaotic systems that the global environment and ecosystem are, it's foolish to think we can predict what effect it will have. Sure, it's silly to run around exclaiming "we're doomed!", but it's no better to bury one's head in the sand and ignore the fact that there is a real possibility of serious consequences should we continue our present course. If we wait for it to be undeniably obvious that bad things are happening, it may be too late to do anything about it. Why be in such a big hurry for "progress" (or to get all our shiny noisy crap) when we can take our time, do things the right way, and not risk premanently screwing up our world?
i think that would itch, like fiberglass, if not cut you...
Yeah, same problem here- the best I've found here in Houston is about a 79% match. They were pretty cool, too, but 90% girl was way more what I'm looking for. There just aren't enough people using it, so I try to mention it anytime it's relevant to do so. I can't believe people actually pay money for sites like match.com and lavalife when OKCupid does the same thing a thousand times better for free.
Check out OKCupid.com. They have a phenomenal statistical matching algorithm. It's not going to tell you if there's physical attraction, or if there's romantic chemistry, but the people I've met on there that it said would be good matches for me really WERE my type, and not just on the basic stuff most dating websites consider (i.e., body type, religious preferences, etc). Their system collects so MUCH information -questions submitted by users that go far beyond the basics- and it weighs all of it properly- it really does an excellent job.
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I met up with a girl from there last week when I was in NYC because it said she was a 90% match, which was the highest of all the users in their system. She was TOTALLY the kind of girl that I'd want to date, and we really got along well. Now if only I lived in NYC...
I'm tired of people associating reading with thinking. I could be reading trash romance or crime novels all day long, and I could be watching the News Hour, or Nova, or something even more educational/thought-provoking on TV. The association between reading and knowledge is a holdout from the days when reading was pretty much the only way to get information beyond your immediate surroundings.
Granted, most programming on TV is trash and the big problem with TV is that the user has very little choice as to what they get to see, but most books published these days are no better and technolgies like DVRs and the internet are giving people more and more choices all the time.
Besides that, there is a great deal of information which is better communicated visually than using the written word. Is someone who casually read a book about the civil war really any more knowledgeable about the subject than someone who watched the Ken Burns documentary and some shows on the History Channel? I doubt it. Is someone who has read descriptions and looked at diagrams of how the human heart works more informed than someone who has seen video and animations of it? Not likely at all.
yeah, NPR's good. I was speaking with regard to television news programming.
I had a dream once where I was eating a giant marshmallow. When I woke up in the morning, I couldn't find my pillow...
They all suck. The only news program of substance is the News Hour, but then that might be more appropriately named the Snooze Hour...
I've always thought it would be cool if Apple made a completely sealed, solid-state iPod. It would need inductive charging built in, as well as wireless bluetooth headphones. I'm not sure if a standard exists for it, but there also needs to be a very short-range (i.e., through the inductive charger) high-bandwidth wireless data transfer protocol. How cool would it be to have a waterproof iPod nano? Maybe someday they'll evolve into equally slim, sealed and lightweight tablets.
Sometimes I get nightmares of teenagers in baggy purple sequence pants, and I wake up screaming.
What the hell are sequence pants? Do you mean sequined pants?
You're forgetting one huge thing that self-driving cars could do for us- automated deliveries. Once we have cars that can drive themselves, I would think it could very quickly follow that we might have stores which only exist online and deliver items to us via automated courier. It's convenient for us, protects the retailer's merchandise and saves them the overhead of making a physical store a customer-friendly experience. We might even have automated garages allow delivery vehicles to enter, drop off materials, and then leave. The efficiency gains for society would be enormous.
Yeah, but how do you know that WebSideStory's numbers aren't taken from sites that attract mostly Windows-only users? For all we know, some of the sites that they monitor could exclude all non-IE browsers.
That seems highly unlikely, given that many of WSS's customers are large global corporations that have big, professionally-created websites- Disney, Best Buy, Fox News, Bank of America, Freddie Mac- a wide range of clients in a variety of sectors. Surely some of their sites exclude non-IE browsers, but they are unlikely to make a significant difference in WSS's numbers.
But my point was not that WebSideStory's numbers are accurate, although by the fact that it is their business to know this kind of stuff and they seem to have been around a while I tend to believe them, but merely that the visitors to your site are not likely to be anywhere near a representative sample of the internet at large. There's lots of info out there that seems to corroborate WSS's numbers. Your little window on the world is nowhere near the big picture that WSS is seeing.
Google used to list this stuff in their zeitgeist, but they seem to have stopped that. Too bad...
I doubt the people who visit your page, which appears to be oriented toward the OSS/Linux/Geek community, are a representative sample of the entire web. They're exactly the kind of people who wouldn't be using IE, either because they're using Linux or a Mac, or because they're Windows 'power users'. Methinks WebSideStory's data is a lot more likely to reflect the mainstream web viewership.
...since I'll probably be too busy playing it once it comes out... Can I have my life back?
While your point #2 sorta addresses it, it should be noted that probably the greatest thing about E-ink is that it's a true reflective display, which means it works great in sunlight (unlike just about every LCD out there) and is generally easier on the eyes. My theory is that the eyes have a much harder time with light emitting displays because they are so rarely the same brightness as everything else in the room, which means the iris is constantly having to adjust. It is for similar reasons that I can't stand using my computer in a dark room. Without the sunglasses, that is :P
This reminds of the fucking 5th masturbation in an hour when only air comes out...
okay... that was a mental image i really could have done without...
i don't think sandpaper is what you want. probably diamond dust. my grandmother, who deals in antique glass, uses this thing that looks like an eraser that has diamond dust embedded in it. You just rub it on a scratched area and it smooths it right out.