First we complain about drivers being distracted with phones while on the road. Just wait till we have skiers/boarders doing the same. Not being able to hear when you are listening to your iPod is really safe
"(Innovation is) an idea, practice, or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other unit of adoption." - Everett M. Rogers, 1995
I had written a harsh retort to this trite list before I stopped to think what the article meant by innovation. Certainly half this is list not new, but new to the masses and not just the elite few. Because that is what innovation is in a capitalist economy is not it's invention but how to bring it to market for the masses. Also, I doubt OLEDs, MEMs, RFID and Memory storage discs are readily recognizable unless you tell people how they are used. (TV/displays, Air Bags, Gov't conspiracies and CD/DVDs)
The space shuttle program was signed into law by Nixon, but wasn't used till the 80's. E-mail has been around since the 60's but not used by everyone until the early 90's. The military has been using GPS since '78 (just missed it) but hikers couldn't get it in a handheld till the mid 90s. etc etc..
Just another "look how clever we are compared to the rest of history" feel good piece.
How long before we can get an open-source version of this?
Why is it whenever M$ comes out with a stupid idea, OSS wants to jump on this bandwagon? This seems like an amazingly stupid idea. Maybe if OSS community would come up with breakthrough ideas it would actually be seen as a viable alternative rather than a M$ catch up.
Umm the soviets ant the US have been using and developing these things since the 50s/60s. True they have been much smaller and only used for corse corrections/ stability. Besides Deep space 1 (DS1) used an Ion drive for it's mission and the mission launched in 1998 and ended 2001. The DS1 wasn't a Hall Ion engine but this stuff certainly isn't new
Denver also had a problem with earthquakes from oil drilling with the shale industry in the 70s & 80s (before it went belly up in the mid/late 80s). Water was pumped down into the areas to help make slurry for transport.
Although I am scared about the prospects of his replacement being a bigger freak, I do not recognize many of the names being speculated upon. But I like how many of their top qualities are being reported:
Larry Thompson.. An African-American and a strong conservative, Thompson could appeal to several constituencies.
White House general counsel Alberto Gonzales, a Hispanic
"People don't want to have to buy an iPod to play their music."
Yeah they do, that is why everyone is coming out with an iPod Killer. Why else has BMW made a special connector?
How would you reboot the computer, 'cause they are expecting crashes Windows Automotive, by the way, does not share a network with the low-level systems of a vehicle--so a software crash won't result in, say, brake failure. How sad is it when those promoting a new product (M$ or otherwise) tell you it is not going to work, that random & unexplainable errors will occur and you will have to live with it.
Okay so the chip is small but still needs to lug around a gas tank. Yeah have fun getting through airport security with this. They don't even let butane cigarette lighters on planes, you think you are going to use a PDA the has.. D battary sized container of fuel that can be punctured and lit on a plane? Plus I have to either refill the container with a caustic material (in an office, train) or buy a new one? Batteries won't leak nearly as much as these things will.
Yeah wow great science. When I was a kid I had horrendous headaches. So when I couldn't sleep it off or had too many pills that weren't working I....
Laid on the couch with an arm hanging off the side a and wrapped my hand in a cloth that also held ice cubes. It worked. Or I would freeze a compress and lay it on my head.
So instead of a 'subatmospheric pressure environment' I used gravity. And instead of using a special water pumping coil I used, a washcloth and ice. Sure there was bit of a mess, but that was fixed by a mixing bowl.
Last time I listen to anyone who says I'm not good enough for Stanford
Great Political Talk
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Ballmer on Linux
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· Score: 2, Interesting
On the touchy issue of security, Ballmer also dismissed the notion that Linux is more secure than Windows, saying that Linux would be attacked just as frequently as Windows if the open source operating system had as large a share of the operating system market as Windows.
He fails to mention if attacks would be as successful on attacking Linux as they are Windows. Great way to answer a question without answering it
FTA: His investigations showed the Japanese, who had developed the game for Microsoft, had added the chant to the tape because they liked the sound of it without checking its origins. "They were chastised and corrected," he said.
So the Japanese screwed up the racial sluring, MS just published it.
I'm not saying out sh*t don't stink, but no one's is roses
According to my ca,r IR/heat already doesn't escape through glass. In or out. The reason my car gets hot is because the visible light heats up the upolstry and the windows trap the heat in. That is why you crack the windows, to give the heat a path out. Your car cools down through conduction of the heat through metal, not because it escapes the same way visible light does. Your house is the same way, except here it is the seals in that make the windows, not the glass, lose heat.
Wasn't this already explored in ST:TNG? Don't we need to travel to a bunch of planets to figure this sequence out and need a tricorder to play the.mov?
From the article:
Plus, contactless payments are cool
and all this information could be embedded into RFID cards on your key chain or in your jewelry. Then, it would give you secure authentication and look nice.
Yeah, 'cause I hate the way money looks I want to pay in style! Besides I've never lost my keychain, a ring or bought new ones ever. But I guess that's the way the US is, form before functionality.
I don't need these rights given to me by some dead guy 200+ years ago, I want a creamsicle NOW!!
Are they limiting the product at first to see if there is a market at all? Is that why it goes to sweden and the UK forst? to see if any one will want this monstrosity?
The zoo was fun but... I'm ruined! ~Herb Powell
I once worked with a kid right out of college. I was connecting a up a computer, strafing the lines with a ground wire.
"What are you doing?" he asked. Good opportunity to teach him something "What would you guess I am doing?" "I don't know, that's why I asked" he replied Fair enough after all he holds a CS degree. "I am removing any excess charge on the connector so we don't short out the computer. It is an ESD safety measure." I informed him. "Oh. I didn't think you were straightening the lines or anything" he quickly replies. Okay he doesn't know when to shut up. I continue connecting the computer and he still moves in to see what I am doing. Since we are connecting this at 10 at night trying to start a series of 3 hour tests I am agitated and yell at him to back off. "I just want to see what you are doing" "I'M TAKING THE MALE CONNECTOR AND STICKING IT IN THE FEMALE CONNECTOR!"
"... What's a female and male connector?"
Others good ones are him not being able to operate a rental car hand brake. Calling into meetings that are down the hall and asking for clarification 4 times or more. And the mother load, hitting on the bosses daughter, with her asking me if that is what he is doing, in front of the boss.
After all he is a CS major. Try working with a pointy haired coworker.
I like how when the choice is "something not by Micro$oft" that user doesn't understand they are limiting themselves (to a choice that doesn't have a Micro$oft answer).
Isn't buying and iPod a choice?
Really, if you don't like ACC and really like WMA then don't buy an iPod. But if you like a MP3 player that has a brilliant user interface, great music store association and ability to play ACC and MPEG-Layer3 files then get an iPod.
In a resume writting class, which are great by the way, a girl was upset about using DOS.
She wanted to use Disk Operating System in case the interviewer didn't know what DOS stood for. She was adament about expanding all acronyms. TCP/IP, Perl etc What if they don't know? What if they think it is something else? What if they think she doesn't know what it means? The instructor assured her that DOS is good to have experience with but will not be a deal breaker when getting a job.
I wanted to ask her why she thought she could get a job.
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Yeah this is a good idea.
First we complain about drivers being distracted with phones while on the road. Just wait till we have skiers/boarders doing the same. Not being able to hear when you are listening to your iPod is really safe
"(Innovation is) an idea, practice, or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other unit of adoption." - Everett M. Rogers, 1995
..
I had written a harsh retort to this trite list before I stopped to think what the article meant by innovation. Certainly half this is list not new, but new to the masses and not just the elite few. Because that is what innovation is in a capitalist economy is not it's invention but how to bring it to market for the masses. Also, I doubt OLEDs, MEMs, RFID and Memory storage discs are readily recognizable unless you tell people how they are used. (TV/displays, Air Bags, Gov't conspiracies and CD/DVDs)
The space shuttle program was signed into law by Nixon, but wasn't used till the 80's. E-mail has been around since the 60's but not used by everyone until the early 90's. The military has been using GPS since '78 (just missed it) but hikers couldn't get it in a handheld till the mid 90s. etc etc
Just another "look how clever we are compared to the rest of history" feel good piece.
How long before we can get an open-source version of this?
Why is it whenever M$ comes out with a stupid idea, OSS wants to jump on this bandwagon? This seems like an amazingly stupid idea. Maybe if OSS community would come up with breakthrough ideas it would actually be seen as a viable alternative rather than a M$ catch up.
Umm the soviets ant the US have been using and developing these things since the 50s/60s. True they have been much smaller and only used for corse corrections/ stability. Besides Deep space 1 (DS1) used an Ion drive for it's mission and the mission launched in 1998 and ended 2001. The DS1 wasn't a Hall Ion engine but this stuff certainly isn't new
Denver also had a problem with earthquakes from oil drilling with the shale industry in the 70s & 80s (before it went belly up in the mid/late 80s). Water was pumped down into the areas to help make slurry for transport.
Although I am scared about the prospects of his replacement being a bigger freak, I do not recognize many of the names being speculated upon. But I like how many of their top qualities are being reported:
.. An African-American and a strong conservative, Thompson could appeal to several constituencies.
Larry Thompson
White House general counsel Alberto Gonzales, a Hispanic
'cause these are really important qualifiers
"People don't want to have to buy an iPod to play their music."
Yeah they do, that is why everyone is coming out with an iPod Killer. Why else has BMW made a special connector?
How would you reboot the computer, 'cause they are expecting crashes Windows Automotive, by the way, does not share a network with the low-level systems of a vehicle--so a software crash won't result in, say, brake failure. How sad is it when those promoting a new product (M$ or otherwise) tell you it is not going to work, that random & unexplainable errors will occur and you will have to live with it.
Okay so the chip is small but still needs to lug around a gas tank. Yeah have fun getting through airport security with this. They don't even let butane cigarette lighters on planes, you think you are going to use a PDA the has .. D battary sized container of fuel that can be punctured and lit on a plane? Plus I have to either refill the container with a caustic material (in an office, train) or buy a new one? Batteries won't leak nearly as much as these things will.
Yeah wow great science. When I was a kid I had horrendous headaches. So when I couldn't sleep it off or had too many pills that weren't working I....
Laid on the couch with an arm hanging off the side a and wrapped my hand in a cloth that also held ice cubes. It worked. Or I would freeze a compress and lay it on my head.
So instead of a 'subatmospheric pressure environment' I used gravity. And instead of using a special water pumping coil I used, a washcloth and ice. Sure there was bit of a mess, but that was fixed by a mixing bowl.
Last time I listen to anyone who says I'm not good enough for Stanford
On the touchy issue of security, Ballmer also dismissed the notion that Linux is more secure than Windows, saying that Linux would be attacked just as frequently as Windows if the open source operating system had as large a share of the operating system market as Windows.
He fails to mention if attacks would be as successful on attacking Linux as they are Windows. Great way to answer a question without answering it
FTA: His investigations showed the Japanese, who had developed the game for Microsoft, had added the chant to the tape because they liked the sound of it without checking its origins. "They were chastised and corrected," he said.
So the Japanese screwed up the racial sluring, MS just published it.
I'm not saying out sh*t don't stink, but no one's is roses
This thing looks atrocious. Some mutant game controller. It reminds me of Johnny 5. Do I have to start babbling to it to see if it can laugh?
Wasn't this already explored in ST:TNG? Don't we need to travel to a bunch of planets to figure this sequence out and need a tricorder to play the .mov?
Here are a few people who can do it without fancy technology: 3 Blind Phreakers
Just because you can't do something doesn't mean someone else can or can't
Make sure to write all scripts in English and French.
Watch out for excessive use of the letter 'O', could label you as a US citizen (or the more popular and quite incorrect American).
From the article:
Plus, contactless payments are cool
and
all this information could be embedded into RFID cards on your key chain or in
your jewelry. Then, it would give you secure authentication and look nice.
Yeah, 'cause I hate the way money looks I want to pay in style! Besides I've never lost my keychain,
a ring or bought new ones ever. But I guess that's the way the US is, form before functionality.
I don't need these rights given to me by some dead guy 200+ years ago, I want a creamsicle NOW!!
Are they limiting the product at first to see if there is a market at all? Is that why it goes to sweden and the UK forst? to see if any one will want this monstrosity? ... I'm ruined! ~Herb Powell
The zoo was fun but
If it ain't broke, you can probably still fix it.
- Tim Allen
It needed more power so, I rewired it!
- Tim Allen
I once worked with a kid right out of college. I was connecting a up a computer, strafing the lines with a ground wire.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
Good opportunity to teach him something "What would you guess I am doing?"
"I don't know, that's why I asked" he replied
Fair enough after all he holds a CS degree. "I am removing any excess charge on the connector so we don't short out the computer. It is an ESD safety measure." I informed him.
"Oh. I didn't think you were straightening the lines or anything" he quickly replies. Okay he doesn't know when to shut up. I continue connecting the computer and he still moves in to see what I am doing. Since we are connecting this at 10 at night trying to start a series of 3 hour tests I am agitated and yell at him to back off.
"I just want to see what you are doing"
"I'M TAKING THE MALE CONNECTOR AND STICKING IT IN THE FEMALE CONNECTOR!"
"... What's a female and male connector?"
Others good ones are him not being able to operate a rental car hand brake. Calling into meetings that are down the hall and asking for clarification 4 times or more. And the mother load, hitting on the bosses daughter, with her asking me if that is what he is doing, in front of the boss.
After all he is a CS major. Try working with a pointy haired coworker.
I like how when the choice is "something not by Micro$oft" that user doesn't understand they are limiting themselves (to a choice that doesn't have a Micro$oft answer).
Isn't buying and iPod a choice?
Really, if you don't like ACC and really like WMA then don't buy an iPod. But if you like a MP3 player that has a brilliant user interface, great music store association and ability to play ACC and MPEG-Layer3 files then get an iPod.
Sh*t or get off the pot.
Me? I'm giving away free money!
And where, and where is the Batman!?
He's at home washing his tights
So not anyone who flies balloons!
My God! This man caused SARs in Antarctica!? Keep him quarantined and away from markets! Does WHO know about this problem?
chauffeur, seamstress, and curator of large mammals.
... twice!
..Sshhh
Worked for the Carter Administration!?
Well, you voted for him
From Marge Gets a Job
In a resume writting class, which are great by the way, a girl was upset about using DOS.
She wanted to use Disk Operating System in case the interviewer didn't know what DOS stood for.
She was adament about expanding all acronyms. TCP/IP, Perl etc
What if they don't know?
What if they think it is something else?
What if they think she doesn't know what it means?
The instructor assured her that DOS is good to have experience with but will not be a deal breaker when getting a job.
I wanted to ask her why she thought she could get a job.