Sarcasm and self-importance aside, there is some validity to "if they need a gui, they shouldn't have a web site". The average Windows user has little to no need for web page design software
Similarly, "If they need an IDE, they shouldn't be programming. Straight machine code or nothing." There is some validity to learning the basics, but if a tool can effectively abstract some of the tedium (much as a compiler does) then good.
I thought one of the main things about this whole new online thing was 'Everyone gets to publish'. Not just you, or those you deem worthy by having learned some arcane keypress sequence, or not just geeks.
(3)... A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.
As eBay has many Atari 2600, Colecovision, Intellivision, etc. systems listed, is anything really *not available*?
Similarly, is a program that was introduced on 5 1/4" floppies, and then taken off the market, considered a "format no longer manufactured"?
Voice recognition and playback can be good, and it's getting better.
I had occasion to call the DoNotCall list to report a telemarketing call (Nationwide Finance, are you listening?) After you get through to the complaint system, the female voice that reads back the number you entered is simply amazing. Sounds just like a regular human. However...in some places, voice recognition is severaly lacking.
Do not ever try to call the Tricare appointment system when you are actually sick.
[me] Dial, dial, dial- eventually get through
[pleasant female Computer voice] "Hello, I'm ready to help you! Please say the name of your primary care facility."
[me] "Fort {{cough}} Eustis"
[Computer] "I'm sorry, I didn't understand that. Did you say Fort Eustis? Please say Yes if that is correct."
[me]{{sneeze}} "Yes"
[Computer]"I'm sorry. I didn't understand that. Could you repeat the name of your primary care facility?"
[me] "Arrrggg!"
[Computer] "I'm sorry. I didn't understand that"
And on we go.
What should have been a 2 second button press has turned into a 2 minute fight between my malady, and an overly polite, oversensitive phone system.
When they become adults they will so trained to it that they won't put up a fight when the government decides everyone needs a tracking device.
No. The real problem is, when they grow up, they will be the government. And having grown up with these and similar monitoring schemes, they will have little problem in instituting it.
Camera's in class? Got em
In car monitoring of the kids? Got it.
In store cameras to follow you through the mall? Got it.
Hell...they even give little cameras out for free so we can monitor each other. They just call em "cell phones".
What's next...shock collars to zap the kid when he strays out of bounds?
Imagine for a moment, your school has this implemented. Also imagine, that like some other school districts, they have also implemented full time camera monitoring. in the classrooms, in the halls, everywhere.
Now imagine the teacher: (pointing her finger at the camera)"If you misbehave, Billy, we'll see you. And (pointing to the RFID tag) we can track you all the way home. So don't misbehave, because we'll know it!"
What about "Don't misbehave, because it is the wrong thing to do"? When does the kid internalize that message?
Now if this were to find it's way into the workplace, that would suck
Give it time. Once all the people who are now schoolkids get out of college, and into the workplace and politics, it will become standard in the workplace. The people in charge of implementing it will have grown up with it all their lives. School, the mall, driving around, cellphone cameras...you'll be on camera "everywhere".
Buying a car last year, the saleswoman had a question on some of the forms.
She asked a more senior salesperson... I overheard: "Yes, we have to fill that in very carefully, so the transcribers in Mexico can enter it in the computer properly."
This, with a technically US-based bank loaning the money.
Now...nothing against Mexico, per se, but shipping *my* info over the border for processing just to save a buck or two is ridiculous.
Well...if we're going to be +1 Informative, let's actually inform, shall we?
$796 - False. Even retail from BestBuy is less than that. $499 (still a lot though). And there is an 'educational' version for quite a bit less.
Word Excel Outlook PowerPoint Remember, this is OfficePro. Which also includes Access, of which there is no similar tool in OOo.
Now considering that the start up cost for a home user is $XXX (not including Windows XP), Which came (to the user) free on their new PC.
If you need help, customer service is in the forums or on an IRC a few clicks away, as opposed to 200+ dollars in long distance... Of course, you are ignoring the thousands of online forums that provide exactly the same assistance for MS tools. And usually, without the standard fanboy mantra "Oh, just go RTFM, you stupid idiot!"
You don't have to walk to the store. Oh. My. God. Such a hassle actually leaving the basement and venturing into the outside world!. Yes...I'd MUCH rather suck down 70mb over a dialup line. (Of course, with MS Office, you have to get the latest patches. But you have to do that no matter what you use, don't ya?)
Having said all that, I DO use OOo at home. While it has it's compatibility problems, the price can't be beat. There is little reason for most businesses to upgrade to Office2003, and even less for home users. Their current 97 or 2000 works just fine.
Then shouldn't the coders/organization behind JavaScript (Netscape) get the credit? This feature/ability was specifically coded into the language.
If I build a widget that does A, B, & C, in any order you want, and someone uses it to do B, and then A, how do they get the credit for something I built?
A backup, in the case of a front door lock, would presumably be a keyed lock. Such as we have now.
Either you carry your backup key with you, defeating the concept of carrying no keys, or you have inside the (now locked and inaccessible) house.
People buy all kinds of motorized, electronic stuff with no backup in case of failure. Electric windows on cars. No backup, and if/when it fails...you're out of luck. Either can't get the window down in an emergency, or can't roll it up as it starts to rain, and the motor fails.
Backup for en electric window would be a crank. How many do you see on cars with elec windows?
Not a hack, but something to do with old appliances.
Upon the demise of my last dryer (once you let the magic smoke out...), I said "well...let's take it apart. Maybe we can reuse some of the parts." (motor for a future Battlebot, maybe?)
Strip it down...take the drum out.
You know that drawer you have, full of odd socks that you wife is always yelling at you about?
Well..the dryer actually does eat them. I pulled a double handful of odd socks, and about $4 in change and bills out of the bottom.
Imagine a warehouse. The guy walking through the racks taking inventory can be online, hooked into the inventory db. The same db that the order takers are hooked into.
Or an oftused conference room. Don't have to have a rat's nest of wires growing out of the floor to each seat.
You're right. A mix of wire/wireless is best. Use the wireless only when you need to. But that still leaves open the possibility of holes in the system.
What I want is a plan that offers me a flat-rate pricing plan with a big number of minutes to whereever I call. Charge me $50.00 a month for 1,000 anytime, anywhere minutes and you will have my business.
Right.
1. Cancel whatever long distance service you have. Totally. All you need is local service on your line. ~$25/month
2. Go to BigZoo and sign up. $0.029 per minute, purchaseable upfront in whatever size block you want. 1000 mins is $29, so you're right near your $50 point.
Easy to use, cheap, and you can use it from *any* phone in the US. It's more or less a virtual calling card.
Initially, it was to have been an operation bomber. The XB-70 was cancelled mainly due to better SAM's and cost overruns, not necessarily a greater reliance on ICBM's. It was singularly limited in flight profile. High altitude, high speed. AS SAMS's got better, it would have been more vulnerable.
But the OP's premise of "fill the back of the Concorde with cruise missiles" still stands well in comparison to an operational B-70. High altitude, high speed penetration. A mission that would have failed in operation.
Tha't why even the B-52 mission profile changed. Too easy to shoot down a high alt flyer. More time to look and acquire.
Also, I am sure PDA functionality will expand from wearable devices to... drivable one? I always wanted to have my Palm being built-in to my car dashboard instead of being lost anywahere in my car.
The rest of us sharing the road with you would prefer you to actually drive the car, not the PDA.
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Or during the train ride,I can take care of replying to emails for work,... I can access my corporate phone and email directories.
So no, I'm not using my phone for decoding DNA sequences but smartphones do alot to untether you.
It sounds like you're very tethered. Just with a longer leash.
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It *may* be an indicator of other problems, though.
Sloppy here, sloppy there.
Bluefish is also a "...powerful editor for experienced web designers and programmers."
This new Lindows/Mozilla hybrid site manager tool may be something for the rest of the population to use.
Sarcasm and self-importance aside, there is some validity to "if they need a gui, they shouldn't have a web site". The average Windows user has little to no need for web page design software
Similarly, "If they need an IDE, they shouldn't be programming. Straight machine code or nothing." There is some validity to learning the basics, but if a tool can effectively abstract some of the tedium (much as a compiler does) then good.
I thought one of the main things about this whole new online thing was 'Everyone gets to publish'.
Not just you, or those you deem worthy by having learned some arcane keypress sequence, or not just geeks.
Everyone.
(3)... A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.
As eBay has many Atari 2600, Colecovision, Intellivision, etc. systems listed, is anything really *not available*?
Similarly, is a program that was introduced on 5 1/4" floppies, and then taken off the market, considered a "format no longer manufactured"?
"40% of drug abuse happens in the inner city"
implied conclusion "Where is the other 60%?"
Now...whether you believe that statistic or not, a LOT of casual drug use/abuse does not happen 'downtown'.
If I drive way too fast, I have an accident and die.
And you may take someone else out with you.
Voice recognition and playback can be good, and it's getting better.
I had occasion to call the DoNotCall list to report a telemarketing call (Nationwide Finance, are you listening?)
After you get through to the complaint system, the female voice that reads back the number you entered is simply amazing. Sounds just like a regular human.
However...in some places, voice recognition is severaly lacking.
Do not ever try to call the Tricare appointment system when you are actually sick.
[me] Dial, dial, dial- eventually get through
[pleasant female Computer voice] "Hello, I'm ready to help you! Please say the name of your primary care facility."
[me] "Fort {{cough}} Eustis"
[Computer] "I'm sorry, I didn't understand that. Did you say Fort Eustis? Please say Yes if that is correct."
[me]{{sneeze}} "Yes"
[Computer]"I'm sorry. I didn't understand that. Could you repeat the name of your primary care facility?"
[me] "Arrrggg!"
[Computer] "I'm sorry. I didn't understand that"
And on we go.
What should have been a 2 second button press has turned into a 2 minute fight between my malady, and an overly polite, oversensitive phone system.
This costs way too much.
Yes, it does. But this is merely on of the first of it's kind.
How much were VCR's when they frst came out? $1000. Today, $50.
Calculators? $120. Today? Mostly free.
10 years ago, how much would you have paid for 100GB of hard drive space?
Give it time. It'll come down.
When they become adults they will so trained to it that they won't put up a fight when the government decides everyone needs a tracking device.
No. The real problem is, when they grow up, they will be the government. And having grown up with these and similar monitoring schemes, they will have little problem in instituting it.
Camera's in class? Got em
In car monitoring of the kids? Got it.
In store cameras to follow you through the mall? Got it.
Hell...they even give little cameras out for free so we can monitor each other. They just call em "cell phones".
What's next...shock collars to zap the kid when he strays out of bounds?
And as a parent, I have a huge problem with this.
Imagine for a moment, your school has this implemented. Also imagine, that like some other school districts, they have also implemented full time camera monitoring. in the classrooms, in the halls, everywhere.
Now imagine the teacher: (pointing her finger at the camera)"If you misbehave, Billy, we'll see you. And (pointing to the RFID tag) we can track you all the way home. So don't misbehave, because we'll know it!"
What about "Don't misbehave, because it is the wrong thing to do"? When does the kid internalize that message?
Now if this were to find it's way into the workplace, that would suck
Give it time. Once all the people who are now schoolkids get out of college, and into the workplace and politics, it will become standard in the workplace. The people in charge of implementing it will have grown up with it all their lives. School, the mall, driving around, cellphone cameras...you'll be on camera "everywhere".
They didn't have to smuggle them. Pre-9/11, boxcutters were legal on aircraft, as were penknives, screwdrivers, etc.
They simply used the max allowable weapon they could get onboard.
Buying a car last year, the saleswoman had a question on some of the forms.
She asked a more senior salesperson...
I overheard:
"Yes, we have to fill that in very carefully, so the transcribers in Mexico can enter it in the computer properly."
This, with a technically US-based bank loaning the money.
Now...nothing against Mexico, per se, but shipping *my* info over the border for processing just to save a buck or two is ridiculous.
i dont want to leave college...
Good. Don't. We don't want you out here anyway.
Well...if we're going to be +1 Informative, let's actually inform, shall we?
$796 - False. Even retail from BestBuy is less than that. $499 (still a lot though). And there is an 'educational' version for quite a bit less.
Word
Excel
Outlook
PowerPoint
Remember, this is OfficePro. Which also includes Access, of which there is no similar tool in OOo.
Now considering that the start up cost for a home user is $XXX (not including Windows XP),
Which came (to the user) free on their new PC.
If you need help, customer service is in the forums or on an IRC a few clicks away, as opposed to 200+ dollars in long distance...
Of course, you are ignoring the thousands of online forums that provide exactly the same assistance for MS tools. And usually, without the standard fanboy mantra "Oh, just go RTFM, you stupid idiot!"
You don't have to walk to the store.
Oh. My. God. Such a hassle actually leaving the basement and venturing into the outside world!. Yes...I'd MUCH rather suck down 70mb over a dialup line. (Of course, with MS Office, you have to get the latest patches. But you have to do that no matter what you use, don't ya?)
Having said all that, I DO use OOo at home. While it has it's compatibility problems, the price can't be beat.
There is little reason for most businesses to upgrade to Office2003, and even less for home users. Their current 97 or 2000 works just fine.
Then shouldn't the coders/organization behind JavaScript (Netscape) get the credit? This feature/ability was specifically coded into the language.
If I build a widget that does A, B, & C, in any order you want, and someone uses it to do B, and then A, how do they get the credit for something I built?
A backup, in the case of a front door lock, would presumably be a keyed lock. Such as we have now.
Either you carry your backup key with you, defeating the concept of carrying no keys, or you have inside the (now locked and inaccessible) house.
People buy all kinds of motorized, electronic stuff with no backup in case of failure. Electric windows on cars. No backup, and if/when it fails...you're out of luck. Either can't get the window down in an emergency, or can't roll it up as it starts to rain, and the motor fails.
Backup for en electric window would be a crank. How many do you see on cars with elec windows?
"Honey, the front door won't open"
"Is the phone working?"
"damn...forgot to charge the battery last night!"
Sometimes, the lowtech answer is best.
Not a hack, but something to do with old appliances.
Upon the demise of my last dryer (once you let the magic smoke out...), I said "well...let's take it apart. Maybe we can reuse some of the parts." (motor for a future Battlebot, maybe?)
Strip it down...take the drum out.
You know that drawer you have, full of odd socks that you wife is always yelling at you about?
Well..the dryer actually does eat them. I pulled a double handful of odd socks, and about $4 in change and bills out of the bottom.
Forget the fancy hack, and just hack it apart.
Imagine a warehouse. The guy walking through the racks taking inventory can be online, hooked into the inventory db. The same db that the order takers are hooked into.
Or an oftused conference room. Don't have to have a rat's nest of wires growing out of the floor to each seat.
You're right. A mix of wire/wireless is best. Use the wireless only when you need to. But that still leaves open the possibility of holes in the system.
What I want is a plan that offers me a flat-rate pricing plan with a big number of minutes to whereever I call. Charge me $50.00 a month for 1,000 anytime, anywhere minutes and you will have my business.
Right.
1. Cancel whatever long distance service you have. Totally. All you need is local service on your line. ~$25/month
2. Go to BigZoo and sign up. $0.029 per minute, purchaseable upfront in whatever size block you want. 1000 mins is $29, so you're right near your $50 point.
Easy to use, cheap, and you can use it from *any* phone in the US. It's more or less a virtual calling card.
Initially, it was to have been an operation bomber. The XB-70 was cancelled mainly due to better SAM's and cost overruns, not necessarily a greater reliance on ICBM's. It was singularly limited in flight profile. High altitude, high speed. AS SAMS's got better, it would have been more vulnerable.
But the OP's premise of "fill the back of the Concorde with cruise missiles" still stands well in comparison to an operational B-70. High altitude, high speed penetration. A mission that would have failed in operation.
Tha't why even the B-52 mission profile changed. Too easy to shoot down a high alt flyer. More time to look and acquire.
They did (sort of). Look up XB-70. Then realize why there are none.
Also, I am sure PDA functionality will expand from wearable devices to... drivable one? I always wanted to have my Palm being built-in to my car dashboard instead of being lost anywahere in my car.
The rest of us sharing the road with you would prefer you to actually drive the car, not the PDA.
Or during the train ride,I can take care of replying to emails for work,...
I can access my corporate phone and email directories.
So no, I'm not using my phone for decoding DNA sequences but smartphones do alot to untether you.
It sounds like you're very tethered. Just with a longer leash.