Unless Gateway or Dell or any of the big computer makers can brand their name on this device this will never fly. There is no room for future upgrades, there is no room for a returning sale on this device. This will be a one time purchase and thats it, you will never see customer again. Unfortunately the ones hurt are those who would benefit the most and do not have that money to afford it. Sad Sad World.
And have heard numerous rumors about this, from many CS grad students, however I am not at TAMU now and can not confirm but to my knowledge this was already a reality even before the summer began.
Who sets standards? Who paves the wave of the IT industry? Unfortunately it is companies like microsoft who are trying to get a head start, to "innovate" and to "revolutionize" the market. If security has really become such a huge concern as the Bush says it has, then the goverment needs to step and lay down some fundamental truths and facts. No company should be allowed to try to forge the course of an industry because ultimately that company will have too much control.
And how many Windows copies with those billion? Being at the top sure is nice, it is going to be years (passed 2008) when another OS will be able to make a significat gap to the MS stronghold.
actually you will find this exact same quote in about 2-3 different sites, none of them giving a original author I decided to just put it like this, google the term and you will see for yourself.
Space - Above and Beyond (FOX TV) "Tanks," human clones and "AIs"
Star Trek TNG: Data/Lor. And those stupid mouse looking robots that could synthesis their own tools.
Asimov I, Robot: self-explanatory
Max Headroom: body harvesters
Brave New World: alphas.
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Unfortunately its not the ignorant people, but more than anything a religious stand point against this. I am all for control, but not for denying the technology to advance, because at the end the only ones hurting themselves is us, for technology always shines through no matter what/who.
dam()
The functions of the thymus were not well understood until the early 1960s, when its role in the development of the body's system of immunity was discovered. Beginning during fetal development, the thymus processes many of the body's lymphocytes, which migrate throughout the body via the bloodstream, seeding lymph nodes and other lymphatic tissue. The main cells undergoing this processing are the T cells, a heterogeneous groups of cells essential in protecting the body against invasions by foreign organisms. If the thymus fails to develop or is removed early in fetal life, the immune system cannot develop completely. Normally, by the time the infant is a few months old, the immune system has sufficiently formed so as to function throughout life. However, further growth and development of lymphoid tissue still depends on intervention by the thymic cells. After the initial seeding process, the thymus releases a hormonal substance that stimulates further growth of lymphoidal tissue, although such a substance has not yet been isolated.
dam()
Regardless of what this article claims, or what alltheweb says they do, Google has proven day in and day out to be the best and fastest search engine I have ever used. It is going to be a while until someone takes google's place, and I really do not see allthecobweb doing it.
dam)(
Theory: Since we only have "strong" "factual" data about this planet therefore we try to relate everything else to what we know. In a large crwod of people it is easier to try to find someone who looks like you, than to try to find someone who you do not know what they look like.
dam(did that make sense?
First, find out what their habits are. Do they like to keep everything all over the place, or do they keep everything in the "My Documents" folder. If it is the second one, then map out their "My Docs" to a server, they will be backing up their data without even knowing it.
If they are speratic savers (ie. they save all over the place) then have management bring down the hammer, and force people to comply, what you dont want to save there? Have management bring in the thugs to rought people up a bit.
dam()
This will most certainly happen, why do they want a more acurate profile of what is selling?
To make sure they have more of that to sell.
What "Such and Such" book only sold one book in this town, USA?
Then lets not carry it anymore.
Botton line is this, one this might cause more exposure to books that dont make the "elite" list but are selling more. Second, good books that dont sell, will be sold even less cause bookstores dont want to waste valuable shelf space for something that will sell.
This will come down to the interpretation of Nike's words, unforutnatly in this world everything you say or maybe even allude to, is/will be used against you in a court of law.
Definatly, even though we love the word free, and open, time is not free or open, so please try to give something back to your favorite distro.
Ontopic:
This is awesome, great to see how linux is moving in on MS from every angle, however, now we have to think about, if Linux on the MAC picks up, what will be Apples response to this? Will they back off their "open" architecute and go around the world giving speeches about how open is bad and "unamerican"?
dam(asdd)
Wasn't he talking about authors being able to sell
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What I got from the story, besides the very obvious ad, is how non this non mainstream (slightly poor) author is trying to sell his work. This should affect all of us, because none of us are MS, we do not have the power to be able to make a program, call it something jazzy then bombard the public with flashy ads on TV, with two page ads on newspapers, with release parties with live bands and lasers. Somehow I think Mr. JK was trying to relate his struggle to sell his book to the struggle that open source is enduring.
Or I just may be an idealist and do not believe this would just be a page long ad.
I certainly use it, but sparingly, only when I have to communicate something that might be "sensitivy" and only to those people that have/understand PGP.
Ontopic------------------
The public does need to be aware of things like this, many people send personal information via email all the time, not understanding what they are basically doing is pretty much putting a sign around their neck with that information, where anyone who really wants to know just just look. Alas, not until someone dies or it comes out in Jerry Springer will the public make any huff about it.
I remember back when wired had some stories about the innovative change which Mexico was trying to make, in most schools. To bring Linux to the forefront and allow all school children to have access to a computer running Linux. What happened? After poop management, little to no training at the particular schools, and very little support from the actual implementors, most computers now are running win95 or a derivative there of.
This, on paper, seems like a great idea, however to actually pull it off it is going to be very difficult, and there needs to be some strong support from the very top people, if not, this move will suffer the same faith which it had in Mexico.
Buena suerte mis amigos.
dam()
The beauty about gov jobs is that first, there is some stability, second, it is hard to get fired, unless youre a complete dumbass, and last, you have a chance to "move up".
cons: bad pay, youre working for the "man".
dam()
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Unless Gateway or Dell or any of the big computer makers can brand their name on this device this will never fly. There is no room for future upgrades, there is no room for a returning sale on this device. This will be a one time purchase and thats it, you will never see customer again. Unfortunately the ones hurt are those who would benefit the most and do not have that money to afford it. Sad Sad World.
And have heard numerous rumors about this, from many CS grad students, however I am not at TAMU now and can not confirm but to my knowledge this was already a reality even before the summer began.
dam(TAMU)
Who sets standards? Who paves the wave of the IT industry? Unfortunately it is companies like microsoft who are trying to get a head start, to "innovate" and to "revolutionize" the market. If security has really become such a huge concern as the Bush says it has, then the goverment needs to step and lay down some fundamental truths and facts. No company should be allowed to try to forge the course of an industry because ultimately that company will have too much control.
dam(pessimisticly accute)
And how many Windows copies with those billion? Being at the top sure is nice, it is going to be years (passed 2008) when another OS will be able to make a significat gap to the MS stronghold.
dam(U)
about the seperation of church and state?
dam(U)
actually you will find this exact same quote in about 2-3 different sites, none of them giving a original author I decided to just put it like this, google the term and you will see for yourself.
Space - Above and Beyond (FOX TV) "Tanks," human clones and "AIs"
Star Trek TNG: Data/Lor. And those stupid mouse looking robots that could synthesis their own tools.
Asimov I, Robot: self-explanatory
Max Headroom: body harvesters
Brave New World: alphas.
-------------
B. Gates: Windows Users
dam(cheap shot)
Unfortunately its not the ignorant people, but more than anything a religious stand point against this. I am all for control, but not for denying the technology to advance, because at the end the only ones hurting themselves is us, for technology always shines through no matter what/who.
dam()
The functions of the thymus were not well understood until the early 1960s, when its role in the development of the body's system of immunity was discovered. Beginning during fetal development, the thymus processes many of the body's lymphocytes, which migrate throughout the body via the bloodstream, seeding lymph nodes and other lymphatic tissue. The main cells undergoing this processing are the T cells, a heterogeneous groups of cells essential in protecting the body against invasions by foreign organisms. If the thymus fails to develop or is removed early in fetal life, the immune system cannot develop completely. Normally, by the time the infant is a few months old, the immune system has sufficiently formed so as to function throughout life. However, further growth and development of lymphoid tissue still depends on intervention by the thymic cells. After the initial seeding process, the thymus releases a hormonal substance that stimulates further growth of lymphoidal tissue, although such a substance has not yet been isolated.
dam()
Regardless of what this article claims, or what alltheweb says they do, Google has proven day in and day out to be the best and fastest search engine I have ever used. It is going to be a while until someone takes google's place, and I really do not see allthecobweb doing it.
dam)(
Theory: Since we only have "strong" "factual" data about this planet therefore we try to relate everything else to what we know. In a large crwod of people it is easier to try to find someone who looks like you, than to try to find someone who you do not know what they look like. dam(did that make sense?
First, find out what their habits are. Do they like to keep everything all over the place, or do they keep everything in the "My Documents" folder. If it is the second one, then map out their "My Docs" to a server, they will be backing up their data without even knowing it. If they are speratic savers (ie. they save all over the place) then have management bring down the hammer, and force people to comply, what you dont want to save there? Have management bring in the thugs to rought people up a bit. dam()
This will most certainly happen, why do they want a more acurate profile of what is selling?
To make sure they have more of that to sell.
What "Such and Such" book only sold one book in this town, USA?
Then lets not carry it anymore.
Botton line is this, one this might cause more exposure to books that dont make the "elite" list but are selling more. Second, good books that dont sell, will be sold even less cause bookstores dont want to waste valuable shelf space for something that will sell.
dam(U)
This will come down to the interpretation of Nike's words, unforutnatly in this world everything you say or maybe even allude to, is/will be used against you in a court of law.
dam(that sucks)
Definatly, even though we love the word free, and open, time is not free or open, so please try to give something back to your favorite distro.
Ontopic:
This is awesome, great to see how linux is moving in on MS from every angle, however, now we have to think about, if Linux on the MAC picks up, what will be Apples response to this? Will they back off their "open" architecute and go around the world giving speeches about how open is bad and "unamerican"?
dam(asdd)
What I got from the story, besides the very obvious ad, is how non this non mainstream (slightly poor) author is trying to sell his work. This should affect all of us, because none of us are MS, we do not have the power to be able to make a program, call it something jazzy then bombard the public with flashy ads on TV, with two page ads on newspapers, with release parties with live bands and lasers. Somehow I think Mr. JK was trying to relate his struggle to sell his book to the struggle that open source is enduring.
Or I just may be an idealist and do not believe this would just be a page long ad.
dam(adiue)
I certainly use it, but sparingly, only when I have to communicate something that might be "sensitivy" and only to those people that have/understand PGP. Ontopic------------------ The public does need to be aware of things like this, many people send personal information via email all the time, not understanding what they are basically doing is pretty much putting a sign around their neck with that information, where anyone who really wants to know just just look. Alas, not until someone dies or it comes out in Jerry Springer will the public make any huff about it.
dam()
I remember back when wired had some stories about the innovative change which Mexico was trying to make, in most schools. To bring Linux to the forefront and allow all school children to have access to a computer running Linux. What happened? After poop management, little to no training at the particular schools, and very little support from the actual implementors, most computers now are running win95 or a derivative there of.
This, on paper, seems like a great idea, however to actually pull it off it is going to be very difficult, and there needs to be some strong support from the very top people, if not, this move will suffer the same faith which it had in Mexico. Buena suerte mis amigos. dam()
The beauty about gov jobs is that first, there is some stability, second, it is hard to get fired, unless youre a complete dumbass, and last, you have a chance to "move up". cons: bad pay, youre working for the "man". dam()