I always thought it would be fun to cut a hole in the brick wall and mount a CRT in the whole with the front just poking out. Like a poor mans wall hanging TV.
But the computer and electronics industry tends to confirm the first mover advantage:
Microsoft - first microcomputer software company Intel - first microprocessor company Oracle - first reliable and commercial RDMS company AOL - one of the original online services Xerox - first photocopier company Sony - first widespread transistor radio company
I doubt the Google Toolbar will end up as spyware. Google specifically has principles against including spyware in their software and has tried to get others in the software industry to support it.
http://www.google.com/corporate/software_principle s.html
Yes. If language shapes thought then how did we ever get the words for the numbers in the first place? We must have first conceptualised the need for those words, then thought of the words second.
Good point. Okay how about using ctrl and cursor keys to select the base of the url you want - and bolding that part in the same way as described above.
Yes! This would be cool if the suggestions are ranked by the number of time you visited that site.
*Or*, if the browser suggested a long url such as "http://www.slashdot.org/blah?x=y..." you move your mouse over it and each section bounded by a "/" would be bolded, and clicking on that would only take you to that section of the url.
How about the browser doing a diff on the current version of a web page against the last version I looked at. For example when I come back to Slashdot in an hour all the changed text has a thin red border around it, or the unchanged text has been dimmed out.
A diff like that would act like an automatic "what's new" feature.
Funny you should say that. At high school my friend was asked in his electronics exam what LED stood for. He got a bit mixed up with LEDs and LCDs and answered Liquid Emitting Diode.
I *love* Itunes' incremental search/type ahead find feature. It's one of the few media players that lets you just type "techno" into a text box and instantly shows all the songs with techno in their tag.
You missed the wash cycle you need to do again when you realised you left a tissue in your pocket and now all your clothes have white bits all over them!
Here's how I get my shirts wrinkle free with no ironing.
1) Hang online while still wet 2) Place dry shirt in tumble dryer for 10 minutes just before wearing it 3) Wear shirt, letting body heat finish the job
Here here, I have been making a nice bit of pocket money selling my old computer parts on Ebay. People will pay more than you think for old parts. For example, often someone will have a computer that only takes hard drives up to 8Gb, so they'll pay pretty decent money for a second hand hard disk under that size.
When I was a teenager I had a Sinclair Spectrum computer that loaded games off casettes. One game I bought wouldn't load properly and I was told by the salesman "Probably the Pixels on your type of TV are modulating incorrectly with the computer causing the loading error".
No they wouldn't. Bayesian filters would see the word "viagra" and give that a high spam score, but all the other words that your Aunty used would probably have a very high ham score (not spam). Thus it would probably score the entire email as ham.
That's the great thing about Bayesian filters, they score the entire email not just look for single keywords.
Hotmail does have a sent messages folder. You just have to tick a checkbox when you compose for it to be saved. Though I think you can set Hotmail to always do this in the preferences.
I'm noticing a pattern here with Google. Launch a web application that the leading sites haven't improved for years, and keep adding new features.
First they released a killer search engine against the stale search engines of Yahoo and Altavista, and wiped the floor. Looks like they will be wiping the floor with web mail too, and adding new features weekly.
Slashdot Mirror
I always thought it would be fun to cut a hole in the brick wall and mount a CRT in the whole with the front just poking out. Like a poor mans wall hanging TV.
But the computer and electronics industry tends to confirm the first mover advantage:
Microsoft - first microcomputer software company
Intel - first microprocessor company
Oracle - first reliable and commercial RDMS company
AOL - one of the original online services
Xerox - first photocopier company
Sony - first widespread transistor radio company
Any text editor worth its salt has a option in the search function to match the whole word, and not the text anywhere in another word.
Yes you can run OSX on normal PC hardware using the open source PearPC emulator. It's no speed demon but it works fine.
http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/
I doubt the Google Toolbar will end up as spyware. Google specifically has principles against including spyware in their software and has tried to get others in the software industry to support it. http://www.google.com/corporate/software_principle s.html
Yes. If language shapes thought then how did we ever get the words for the numbers in the first place? We must have first conceptualised the need for those words, then thought of the words second.
Good point. Okay how about using ctrl and cursor keys to select the base of the url you want - and bolding that part in the same way as described above.
Yes! This would be cool if the suggestions are ranked by the number of time you visited that site. *Or*, if the browser suggested a long url such as "http://www.slashdot.org/blah?x=y..." you move your mouse over it and each section bounded by a "/" would be bolded, and clicking on that would only take you to that section of the url.
How about the browser doing a diff on the current version of a web page against the last version I looked at. For example when I come back to Slashdot in an hour all the changed text has a thin red border around it, or the unchanged text has been dimmed out.
A diff like that would act like an automatic "what's new" feature.
That's nothing. How about a cassette deck, cigarette lighter, and an aquarium?
So how many colours would be enough for a TV? How many colours are you really able to distinguish?
Funny you should say that. At high school my friend was asked in his electronics exam what LED stood for. He got a bit mixed up with LEDs and LCDs and answered Liquid Emitting Diode.
I *love* Itunes' incremental search/type ahead find feature. It's one of the few media players that lets you just type "techno" into a text box and instantly shows all the songs with techno in their tag.
You missed the wash cycle you need to do again when you realised you left a tissue in your pocket and now all your clothes have white bits all over them!
Here's how I get my shirts wrinkle free with no ironing.
1) Hang online while still wet
2) Place dry shirt in tumble dryer for 10 minutes just before wearing it
3) Wear shirt, letting body heat finish the job
Compuglobalhypermeganet. Junior Vice President Homer Simpson speaking, how may I direct your call?
Forget about Vice Presidents, how many *Junior* Vice Presidents do they have?
Here here, I have been making a nice bit of pocket money selling my old computer parts on Ebay. People will pay more than you think for old parts. For example, often someone will have a computer that only takes hard drives up to 8Gb, so they'll pay pretty decent money for a second hand hard disk under that size.
When I was a teenager I had a Sinclair Spectrum computer that loaded games off casettes. One game I bought wouldn't load properly and I was told by the salesman "Probably the Pixels on your type of TV are modulating incorrectly with the computer causing the loading error".
No they wouldn't. Bayesian filters would see the word "viagra" and give that a high spam score, but all the other words that your Aunty used would probably have a very high ham score (not spam). Thus it would probably score the entire email as ham.
That's the great thing about Bayesian filters, they score the entire email not just look for single keywords.
Hotmail does have a sent messages folder. You just have to tick a checkbox when you compose for it to be saved. Though I think you can set Hotmail to always do this in the preferences.
I'm noticing a pattern here with Google. Launch a web application that the leading sites haven't improved for years, and keep adding new features.
First they released a killer search engine against the stale search engines of Yahoo and Altavista, and wiped the floor. Looks like they will be wiping the floor with web mail too, and adding new features weekly.
In Soviet Russia DVDs burn you!
1) Find security exploit in BSD
2) ???
3) Profit
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