Most people who carry laptops carry a cell phone anyway.
This is one cellphone innovation that seems worthwhile.
One question, can you turn on the mouse feature separately from the rest of the phone? This would be important for use in airplanes, since cell phone usage is generally banned on planes.
Before Napster, there was nothing like it. No killer P2P app.
It also allowed people to gain a "product", music files.
Unfortunately, Linux has competition in Windows whcih still runs a vast majority of desktops.
Advertising would help
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Aside from the IBM infrastructure commercials, Linux has received no advertising whatsoever. Word-of-mouth is good, but to reach millions, more work is needed in getting the word out in print, radio and TV.
Appealing to to pricing aspect would be a good first advertising angle.
Can all these changes be implemented by the auto manufacturers? Sure, titanium is stronger and lighter but is also harder to work with and more expensive that the common exhaust alternative, steel. These trucks must be inexpensive enough to produce to be inexpensive enough for the average consumer.
And aluminum as safe as an all-steel frame? Perhaps, but I'm under the impression that aluminum is not as strong a building material as steel.
The biggest advantages can be seen in engine technology, especially hybrid gas/electric and alternative fuels (natural gas produces 20% the emissions of gasoline, yet provides similar power). If nothing else, we can make great strides in improving air quality.
No decision has been made whether to inspect 11-year-old Endeavour, which returned last Wednesday from a two-week mission to the International Space Station.
Might as well inspect it, all the others are undergoing the same process. It's sufficiently old to warrant it, and fresh off a two-week mission, no time is like the present.
Why they wouldn't do it would boggle me, considering the possible consequences.
They've probably produced tens of thousands of units ready to ship,and they're sitting in a warehouse somewhere. The inventory represents money already spent and will cost them more to scrap the unsold units after a period of time.
Even storing them costs Microsoft. They could be using the warehouse space to store something else.
People buying Xbox units will create a revenue stream for Microsoft for some time, and bragging rights as they sell more units, according to your idea.
Thanks to built-in MacDrive technology, XPlay even makes your iPod appear as a normal hard drive
I've owned other MP3 players and always had to deal with a special interface to add and remove files. This is the first time I've seen an MP3 player represented as another drive, making it super easy to manipulate your playlist!
This should lure a lot of Windows users to the iPod, or at least pique their interest.
Few people realize the psychological impact of long space flights, especially the lack of human contact. I mean, even the INTERNET couldn't kill the boredom.
A "dime", or 10-cent piece was once called a "disme" when 10 cent pattern coin were minted in 1792. (Disme means "tenth" and was supposed to be used like "dollar" and "cent")Furthermore, until 1873, he U.S. Mint minted 5-cent silver coins called "half-dimes" (half-dismes in 1792). The familiar "nickel" wasn't minted until 1866, and was bigger than a dime because it's made of base-metal (dimes were mostly silver then), 3 parts copper, 1 part nickel. Nickels say 5 cents, to differentiate from the half-dimes.
Our money seems counter-intuitive, since all our coins are debased. Metal content was changed in dimes and up in 1964 from 90% silver to the current copper-nickel composition.
The U.S. Mint also made half-cents and cents as large as a half-dollar till 1857, a two-cent piece and two flavors of three-cent pieces, but that's a different story for a different post.
With the last redesign, low value notes ($2 and $1) were not affected. Now this new colored money will only be done on the $100, $50 and $20, leaving the $10 and $5 as well as the low denominations.
Doesn't anyone find is strange that we'll have three completely different kinds of bills co-circulating when this is done?
The verdict is surprising, since Indymedia NL does not link directly to illegal articles. Until now, only direct links to illegal material were forbidden in the Netherlands.
But how many "degrees of separation" (consectuive link-jumps) are needed until the linking is permissible. Six?
Though I'm not in the Netherlands, I cannot see how this can be logical. One might be able to extend this ruling ad infinitum.
Regardless of the technology
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Designers always are under the impression that "bleeding edge" is the most enticing way to go, and assume that is what the consumer desires. Usually, however this is not the case, people want a stable, easy to use interface.
It's time we let this little tidbit be known. Quit fixing things that aren't broken!
You're doing the work the contractor does. Not everyone will have the patience to run through all the steps in the book. Therefore, people hire contractors to do all this for them.
This book will appeal to a rather limited audience who has the time and energy to do all this themselves. Despite the savings, most people would rather "take the easy way out".
So you're implying I steal television airtime if I go take a bathroom constitutional or head off to the fridge for a snack? I hardly think it's stealing, just a convenience that TiVo users enjoy by skipping ads.
And what about channel surfing?
Also consider that there are more ads on TV now than ever before, and a lot of ads on cable channels that I've already paid for every month!
I pay for my TV in other ways. I don't think is "stealing".
Against misinformation the public via the news channels? I understand they want business, but using FUD techniques will only backfire and cause major distrust among the public.
Would you want to use a product from an entity you don't quite trust?
Rather than wasting timewatching boring ads, I'd rather see companies pay to have actual products placed on sets in television shows. It could even add to the realism. Let's face it, do you have cans of Coke or Pepsi at home (or strewn around the house!). The answer is "bloody likely".
Superimposed ads are far less likely, as this would probably cause a firestorm of protest from annoyed viewers.
Usually the courts rule in favor of more protection winning out over individual rights.
Though a little discomforting perhaps to patrons and libraries alike, the "tap on the shoulder" method seems to be the most preferable method. Though there is freedom of information, there are rules one must abide by when using library equipment, so one must accpewt a small loss of privacy by library personnel occasionally monitoring your surfing.
However, human discretion seems to beat software in this case.
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Most people who carry laptops carry a cell phone anyway.
This is one cellphone innovation that seems worthwhile.
One question, can you turn on the mouse feature separately from the rest of the phone? This would be important for use in airplanes, since cell phone usage is generally banned on planes.
On constrution site barriers (so people can't get in to the site and hurt themselves), the sign "Post No Bills".
This is almost a form of digital vandalism. Not to mention that spyware is rather like a virus, slowing down your speed with obnoxious popup ads.
I hope the plaintiffs win big on this one.
Whether the source is open or closed, you're going to have something slip through all those lines of code.
The key here is that it is caught and corrected, and solutions offered.
Before Napster, there was nothing like it. No killer P2P app.
It also allowed people to gain a "product", music files.
Unfortunately, Linux has competition in Windows whcih still runs a vast majority of desktops.
Aside from the IBM infrastructure commercials, Linux has received no advertising whatsoever. Word-of-mouth is good, but to reach millions, more work is needed in getting the word out in print, radio and TV.
Appealing to to pricing aspect would be a good first advertising angle.
Can all these changes be implemented by the auto manufacturers? Sure, titanium is stronger and lighter but is also harder to work with and more expensive that the common exhaust alternative, steel. These trucks must be inexpensive enough to produce to be inexpensive enough for the average consumer.
And aluminum as safe as an all-steel frame? Perhaps, but I'm under the impression that aluminum is not as strong a building material as steel.
The biggest advantages can be seen in engine technology, especially hybrid gas/electric and alternative fuels (natural gas produces 20% the emissions of gasoline, yet provides similar power). If nothing else, we can make great strides in improving air quality.
No decision has been made whether to inspect 11-year-old Endeavour, which returned last Wednesday from a two-week mission to the International Space Station.
Might as well inspect it, all the others are undergoing the same process. It's sufficiently old to warrant it, and fresh off a two-week mission, no time is like the present.
Why they wouldn't do it would boggle me, considering the possible consequences.
They've probably produced tens of thousands of units ready to ship,and they're sitting in a warehouse somewhere. The inventory represents money already spent and will cost them more to scrap the unsold units after a period of time.
Even storing them costs Microsoft. They could be using the warehouse space to store something else.
People buying Xbox units will create a revenue stream for Microsoft for some time, and bragging rights as they sell more units, according to your idea.
Again, they're complicating what is supposed to be blazingly simple. Console games are attractive to many for ease of operation.
And to some, plunking down $500 may seem like a lot, people may decide to make separate purchses for a video game and PVR instead.
Maybe Microsoft should be looking at their offering of games instead to see why they're losing the battle against sony and Nintendo.
Thanks to built-in MacDrive technology, XPlay even makes your iPod appear as a normal hard drive
I've owned other MP3 players and always had to deal with a special interface to add and remove files. This is the first time I've seen an MP3 player represented as another drive, making it super easy to manipulate your playlist!
This should lure a lot of Windows users to the iPod, or at least pique their interest.
Unfortunately, this is the wrong way to lose weight, as most of the subjects' weight loss was muscle mass, and not fat.
You can't burn any fat without exercise and enough protein.
Few people realize the psychological impact of long space flights, especially the lack of human contact. I mean, even the INTERNET couldn't kill the boredom.
A "dime", or 10-cent piece was once called a "disme" when 10 cent pattern coin were minted in 1792. (Disme means "tenth" and was supposed to be used like "dollar" and "cent")Furthermore, until 1873, he U.S. Mint minted 5-cent silver coins called "half-dimes" (half-dismes in 1792). The familiar "nickel" wasn't minted until 1866, and was bigger than a dime because it's made of base-metal (dimes were mostly silver then), 3 parts copper, 1 part nickel. Nickels say 5 cents, to differentiate from the half-dimes.
Our money seems counter-intuitive, since all our coins are debased. Metal content was changed in dimes and up in 1964 from 90% silver to the current copper-nickel composition.
The U.S. Mint also made half-cents and cents as large as a half-dollar till 1857, a two-cent piece and two flavors of three-cent pieces, but that's a different story for a different post.
With the last redesign, low value notes ($2 and $1) were not affected. Now this new colored money will only be done on the $100, $50 and $20, leaving the $10 and $5 as well as the low denominations.
Doesn't anyone find is strange that we'll have three completely different kinds of bills co-circulating when this is done?
The verdict is surprising, since Indymedia NL does not link directly to illegal articles. Until now, only direct links to illegal material were forbidden in the Netherlands.
But how many "degrees of separation" (consectuive link-jumps) are needed until the linking is permissible. Six?
Though I'm not in the Netherlands, I cannot see how this can be logical. One might be able to extend this ruling ad infinitum.
Has there been any progress on the Pigeon Computing initiative?
Designers always are under the impression that "bleeding edge" is the most enticing way to go, and assume that is what the consumer desires. Usually, however this is not the case, people want a stable, easy to use interface.
It's time we let this little tidbit be known. Quit fixing things that aren't broken!
You're doing the work the contractor does. Not everyone will have the patience to run through all the steps in the book. Therefore, people hire contractors to do all this for them.
This book will appeal to a rather limited audience who has the time and energy to do all this themselves. Despite the savings, most people would rather "take the easy way out".
TiVo allows one to steal content by skipping ads
So you're implying I steal television airtime if I go take a bathroom constitutional or head off to the fridge for a snack? I hardly think it's stealing, just a convenience that TiVo users enjoy by skipping ads.
And what about channel surfing?
Also consider that there are more ads on TV now than ever before, and a lot of ads on cable channels that I've already paid for every month!
I pay for my TV in other ways. I don't think is "stealing".
Against misinformation the public via the news channels? I understand they want business, but using FUD techniques will only backfire and cause major distrust among the public.
Would you want to use a product from an entity you don't quite trust?
I didn't know there were trolls in online gaming, except Ultima Online, and they're just an adversary, and I'm pretty sure they don't cheat.
Rather than wasting timewatching boring ads, I'd rather see companies pay to have actual products placed on sets in television shows. It could even add to the realism. Let's face it, do you have cans of Coke or Pepsi at home (or strewn around the house!). The answer is "bloody likely".
Superimposed ads are far less likely, as this would probably cause a firestorm of protest from annoyed viewers.
One final note for anyone thinking it hypocritical to waste trees so these ideas could be distributed:
Actually, I thought trees were a renewable resource, and when disposed of properly, paper can be biodegradable.
The only problem I see is the bleaching in some papers.
I was all excited, reading it first as the Iludium Pu 36 Explosive Space Modulator!
Usually the courts rule in favor of more protection winning out over individual rights.
Though a little discomforting perhaps to patrons and libraries alike, the "tap on the shoulder" method seems to be the most preferable method. Though there is freedom of information, there are rules one must abide by when using library equipment, so one must accpewt a small loss of privacy by library personnel occasionally monitoring your surfing.
However, human discretion seems to beat software in this case.