I often wonder if you couldn't just run all this social networking stuff over basic SMTP/POP3/IMAP with some customized client on the front end to interpret the messages. When you want to update your status, you send out an email to each of your 400 friends. They log into their client, and receive that email, and find out about that status update. It would be quite a bit inefficient, but most mail servers are pretty much idle most of the time anyway. Develop a standard for what the messages look like, for posting statuses, pictures, links, blog articles, whatever you want, and provide a nice client for accessing it all. Add in some Key exchange so that only your friends can post you messages, and you're pretty much set. Anybody can host it on whichever email server they like, and nobody holds all the cards.
I heard about this on Quirks and Quarks on CBC (not often they beat Slashdot to a story). The big use of this on aircraft would be to prevent ice from sticking to the wings, which is a big safety hazard.
Yeah, all 135 lbs. (5'8" male) of my fat ass. You don't necessarily need animal fats, but you do need some fats. Cut out all the fat that you get from animals from your diet, especially if you are very active as I am, and you will have to eat a lot of plants to make up for it. Or add a lot of purified plant oils
I don't mind eating vegetarian meals. Many of them are quite tasty. What I do object to however, is people who try to synthesize meat with vegetable products, because eating meat is unethical. If eating meat turns them off so much, then why do many vegetarians (not talking about you (are you even veg?) or anyone specifically) insist on making their food look and taste exactly like the food that "disgusts" them so much. A nice vegetarian meal tastes great, and eating veg a few times a week ends up cheaper so I can buy better cuts of meat.
Actually, the domestic dog was used a food source for much of human history. Dogs were great to have around for protection and hunting, but when food was scarce, they were also great for eating. People couldn't always walk down the street to the supermarket to get food.
If this is just muscle cells though, then I imagine the taste won't be at all similar to real meat. Most real meat has a fair amount of fat in it, which your body needs to survive. Then there's the cartilage which some of use still eat, especially off chicken bones. Just growing a single kind of cell would leave out quite a few nutrients that our bodies need. That's without even getting into tasty organ meats like liver.
Even better, just go with a console. There's absolutely nothing to mess with. I used to game a lot on the PC, but the cost and configuration problems were just too many. I'd rather just put the game in, and know that it will work. This includes buying games. I don't want to wonder about how well my system will handle a particular game when buying it. I want to bring it home, put it in the machine, and play it. Sure the PC has far superior graphics, and I kind of miss use a mouse and keyboard for a lot of games. But in the end, the console is a much better solution for me. I spend a few hundred dollars on the console, games cost about the same, and I spend a whole lot less on my computer.
But that's still a good thing. Many people I know say that you might as well buy a Chinese knockoff tablet instead of the Fire, because it's much cheaper. My argument is that the Chinese retailers don't care if your products works a month after you get it, and you're on your own for software upgrades. Amazon on the other hand has a vested interest in ensuring that you continue to use the Fire for a long time. Because if you stop using the tablet, then you stop buying content from them. So Amazon is very interested in ensuring that the hardware is top notch.
I don't think apple is going to go after people for running MacOS on a non-Apple machine (please correct me if you have any evidence to the contrary). However, I think they put that in there, because you shouldn't expect any kind of support when running it on a non-Apple machine.
Did they really "force" you to provide that information? Do they "force" you to buy games off them? If you don't like the terms of service, then don't buy from them. Personally I don't use my credit card at any online store that doesn't expressly state that the information isn't saved on their servers. There's no reason they should need to maintain this information. I have no problem entering the information each and every time I want to purchase something. For many sites I'll use Paypal, so that they don't even have access to my credit card number in the first place.
I think this would be the best option. I use RDIO, which is kind of like NetFlix for music. You can play music in the browser, but they also have a Native app that runs outside your browser. I think Netflix should do the same. The disadvantage is that you would have to install something on every computer you want to watch movies on. I'm sure people watch stuff at work, or even on a work laptop, but may be unable to install applications. Perhaps they could go the Chrome route and create an application that just installs itself in your local user directory to get around various restrictions for installing stuff. This would probably give the most reliable playback on all platforms.
Probably not much really. Assuming you still have the files, JPGs have been easily readable for over 15 years. There are other formats that are coming out, but nothing really seems to be catching on. Keep all your photos backed up on a hard drive or 3, and refresh the drives every 5 years as the standards change. And you should be able to keep most of your photos. In about 5 years, I reckon you'll be able to store every photo you ever take on a $20 USB thumb drive. Buy a 3 or 4 of them, and keep a whole bunch of copies. Certainly much easier than maintaining physical photos. If you want a backup copy, you have to pay for each individual print. And is there even a way to make a perfect copy of the original film? because if you lose that, you're toast, no more good copies.
Actually, if people have their own tablets and phones, what's stopping them from taking their own adult films on board. A plane is not the proper place to be watching a porn movie. That movie could easily be seen by the person beside you, behind you, or just someone walking down the aisle.
That whole monopoly thing is stupid anyway. What did they actually do wrong? Include a browser with their OS. Well then they makers of Midnight Commander should have gone after them for including a tool similar to theirs. At a certain point, things like this need to be included as part of the operating system. Then there's the allegations that they strong armed OEMs into only bundling Windows with computers. This at a time when most consumers had never even heard of Linux, and it wasn't even close to ready for the average user. Anybody who wanted to use Linux at the time could easily put together thier own system, or purchase a "workstation" model from their favourite manufacturer with something like RedHat pre-installed. The simple truth is that manufacturers have no interest in supporting Linux, because the market is simply way too small.
One thing that bothers me about e-ink displays is the page turn speed. If they are all about the reading, then this is the one area where they fail. Changing the page takes way too long, and the fact that it goes to all black and then the letters appear is really annoying. That is one think that needs to be fixed before I will get an e-ink device. LCD has the advantage that the page can change instantly, and without jarring your eyes, whereas e-ink is terrible. Also, once higher resolution "retina" displays get cheaper, there will be no resolution difference between the LCD and e-ink displays
About:blank makes an even better home page. Provided you have a search bar on your browse, as I think they all do now, there's no reason to have any page load up by default.
I guess it depends on how much you want the job. If the job is better than your current one, and pays an extra $5000 a year, what's a couple hours of work to land the job? Maybe they should pay you for the time you spent in the interview too, and the time you spend fixing up your resume and writing a cover letter so that it would be targeted toward the specific job you are applying for. If it's too much to ask, then don't apply, and turn down the job. Maybe let them know why. But for many people it's not too much to ask, especially if it's a good job.
On Windows 7 I was able to download an OEM (not the manufacturer specific one) CD image for Windows 7 Home Premium, and use my Product Key directly. As far as I know, there are no special product keys in windows 7 that only work with a special disk from your manufacturer. Granted I had to go TPB to get that OEM image, but my key worked perfectly fine, and I have had no problems getting my computer to verify as genuine. Sure they could provide a way for people to download the CD, but I think they did pretty good this time around, not half as bad as XP, where your "key" would only work with manufacturer specific disks.
Again poor configuration. Why have you selected so much stuff to start up? Most of it isn't necessary. A properly configured windows machine can boot quite fast. First step is to get rid of the default windows installation and install windows from scratch, and not from a manufacturer recovery partition. It's kind of sad that MS works so hard to make a nice system, and all the manufacturers that make computers do such a good job of screwing it up.
The way contracts work in the government is that usually they have a specific contractor they want to use anyway. So they'll word the contract in such a way that only that specific contractor can meet all the requirements. Same goes when they want to hire a specific person. Because of government regulations, they have to have an open competition for contracts and positions, but many times they already know who they want to work with. On one hand it's unfair to the others who want the contract or job. On the other hand, it's a lot less risky for them to pick somebody they know will get the job done (regardless of the cost) over someone they have never worked with before.
But who really cares. As long as the flight is safe, most people don't care if they have an uncomfortable seating for a few hours. I wouldn't mind standing up like on the SkyRider if it meant the flight would only cost half as much. Not everyone is looking for a luxury vacation all the time. Sometimes, people just want to get where they are going. If I wanted a nice journey, I wouldn't take a plane to begin with.
Not only windows, but many third party applications require IE to be installed in order to function properly. I know this because I've run into two such apps (in the last 3 months) which failed to work properly because I had IE9 installed, which wasn't supported. There are tons of applications out there that require IE to be installed in order to work correctly. And I'm not just talking about reading help files. I'm talking about core functionality.
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I often wonder if you couldn't just run all this social networking stuff over basic SMTP/POP3/IMAP with some customized client on the front end to interpret the messages. When you want to update your status, you send out an email to each of your 400 friends. They log into their client, and receive that email, and find out about that status update. It would be quite a bit inefficient, but most mail servers are pretty much idle most of the time anyway. Develop a standard for what the messages look like, for posting statuses, pictures, links, blog articles, whatever you want, and provide a nice client for accessing it all. Add in some Key exchange so that only your friends can post you messages, and you're pretty much set. Anybody can host it on whichever email server they like, and nobody holds all the cards.
I heard about this on Quirks and Quarks on CBC (not often they beat Slashdot to a story). The big use of this on aircraft would be to prevent ice from sticking to the wings, which is a big safety hazard.
Aquafresh has made a Toothpaste in a pump for decades. Thanks for reminding me about this. It may just make me switch (back) to their brand.
Yeah, all 135 lbs. (5'8" male) of my fat ass. You don't necessarily need animal fats, but you do need some fats. Cut out all the fat that you get from animals from your diet, especially if you are very active as I am, and you will have to eat a lot of plants to make up for it. Or add a lot of purified plant oils
I don't mind eating vegetarian meals. Many of them are quite tasty. What I do object to however, is people who try to synthesize meat with vegetable products, because eating meat is unethical. If eating meat turns them off so much, then why do many vegetarians (not talking about you (are you even veg?) or anyone specifically) insist on making their food look and taste exactly like the food that "disgusts" them so much. A nice vegetarian meal tastes great, and eating veg a few times a week ends up cheaper so I can buy better cuts of meat.
Don't know where my link went... Here it is
Actually, the domestic dog was used a food source for much of human history. Dogs were great to have around for protection and hunting, but when food was scarce, they were also great for eating. People couldn't always walk down the street to the supermarket to get food.
If this is just muscle cells though, then I imagine the taste won't be at all similar to real meat. Most real meat has a fair amount of fat in it, which your body needs to survive. Then there's the cartilage which some of use still eat, especially off chicken bones. Just growing a single kind of cell would leave out quite a few nutrients that our bodies need. That's without even getting into tasty organ meats like liver.
Even better, just go with a console. There's absolutely nothing to mess with. I used to game a lot on the PC, but the cost and configuration problems were just too many. I'd rather just put the game in, and know that it will work. This includes buying games. I don't want to wonder about how well my system will handle a particular game when buying it. I want to bring it home, put it in the machine, and play it. Sure the PC has far superior graphics, and I kind of miss use a mouse and keyboard for a lot of games. But in the end, the console is a much better solution for me. I spend a few hundred dollars on the console, games cost about the same, and I spend a whole lot less on my computer.
But that's still a good thing. Many people I know say that you might as well buy a Chinese knockoff tablet instead of the Fire, because it's much cheaper. My argument is that the Chinese retailers don't care if your products works a month after you get it, and you're on your own for software upgrades. Amazon on the other hand has a vested interest in ensuring that you continue to use the Fire for a long time. Because if you stop using the tablet, then you stop buying content from them. So Amazon is very interested in ensuring that the hardware is top notch.
I don't think apple is going to go after people for running MacOS on a non-Apple machine (please correct me if you have any evidence to the contrary). However, I think they put that in there, because you shouldn't expect any kind of support when running it on a non-Apple machine.
Did they really "force" you to provide that information? Do they "force" you to buy games off them? If you don't like the terms of service, then don't buy from them. Personally I don't use my credit card at any online store that doesn't expressly state that the information isn't saved on their servers. There's no reason they should need to maintain this information. I have no problem entering the information each and every time I want to purchase something. For many sites I'll use Paypal, so that they don't even have access to my credit card number in the first place.
I think this would be the best option. I use RDIO, which is kind of like NetFlix for music. You can play music in the browser, but they also have a Native app that runs outside your browser. I think Netflix should do the same. The disadvantage is that you would have to install something on every computer you want to watch movies on. I'm sure people watch stuff at work, or even on a work laptop, but may be unable to install applications. Perhaps they could go the Chrome route and create an application that just installs itself in your local user directory to get around various restrictions for installing stuff. This would probably give the most reliable playback on all platforms.
Probably not much really. Assuming you still have the files, JPGs have been easily readable for over 15 years. There are other formats that are coming out, but nothing really seems to be catching on. Keep all your photos backed up on a hard drive or 3, and refresh the drives every 5 years as the standards change. And you should be able to keep most of your photos. In about 5 years, I reckon you'll be able to store every photo you ever take on a $20 USB thumb drive. Buy a 3 or 4 of them, and keep a whole bunch of copies. Certainly much easier than maintaining physical photos. If you want a backup copy, you have to pay for each individual print. And is there even a way to make a perfect copy of the original film? because if you lose that, you're toast, no more good copies.
Actually, if people have their own tablets and phones, what's stopping them from taking their own adult films on board. A plane is not the proper place to be watching a porn movie. That movie could easily be seen by the person beside you, behind you, or just someone walking down the aisle.
That whole monopoly thing is stupid anyway. What did they actually do wrong? Include a browser with their OS. Well then they makers of Midnight Commander should have gone after them for including a tool similar to theirs. At a certain point, things like this need to be included as part of the operating system. Then there's the allegations that they strong armed OEMs into only bundling Windows with computers. This at a time when most consumers had never even heard of Linux, and it wasn't even close to ready for the average user. Anybody who wanted to use Linux at the time could easily put together thier own system, or purchase a "workstation" model from their favourite manufacturer with something like RedHat pre-installed. The simple truth is that manufacturers have no interest in supporting Linux, because the market is simply way too small.
Also, you still need the armed guards.
One thing that bothers me about e-ink displays is the page turn speed. If they are all about the reading, then this is the one area where they fail. Changing the page takes way too long, and the fact that it goes to all black and then the letters appear is really annoying. That is one think that needs to be fixed before I will get an e-ink device. LCD has the advantage that the page can change instantly, and without jarring your eyes, whereas e-ink is terrible. Also, once higher resolution "retina" displays get cheaper, there will be no resolution difference between the LCD and e-ink displays
About:blank makes an even better home page. Provided you have a search bar on your browse, as I think they all do now, there's no reason to have any page load up by default.
I guess it depends on how much you want the job. If the job is better than your current one, and pays an extra $5000 a year, what's a couple hours of work to land the job? Maybe they should pay you for the time you spent in the interview too, and the time you spend fixing up your resume and writing a cover letter so that it would be targeted toward the specific job you are applying for. If it's too much to ask, then don't apply, and turn down the job. Maybe let them know why. But for many people it's not too much to ask, especially if it's a good job.
On Windows 7 I was able to download an OEM (not the manufacturer specific one) CD image for Windows 7 Home Premium, and use my Product Key directly. As far as I know, there are no special product keys in windows 7 that only work with a special disk from your manufacturer. Granted I had to go TPB to get that OEM image, but my key worked perfectly fine, and I have had no problems getting my computer to verify as genuine. Sure they could provide a way for people to download the CD, but I think they did pretty good this time around, not half as bad as XP, where your "key" would only work with manufacturer specific disks.
Again poor configuration. Why have you selected so much stuff to start up? Most of it isn't necessary. A properly configured windows machine can boot quite fast. First step is to get rid of the default windows installation and install windows from scratch, and not from a manufacturer recovery partition. It's kind of sad that MS works so hard to make a nice system, and all the manufacturers that make computers do such a good job of screwing it up.
The way contracts work in the government is that usually they have a specific contractor they want to use anyway. So they'll word the contract in such a way that only that specific contractor can meet all the requirements. Same goes when they want to hire a specific person. Because of government regulations, they have to have an open competition for contracts and positions, but many times they already know who they want to work with. On one hand it's unfair to the others who want the contract or job. On the other hand, it's a lot less risky for them to pick somebody they know will get the job done (regardless of the cost) over someone they have never worked with before.
But who really cares. As long as the flight is safe, most people don't care if they have an uncomfortable seating for a few hours. I wouldn't mind standing up like on the SkyRider if it meant the flight would only cost half as much. Not everyone is looking for a luxury vacation all the time. Sometimes, people just want to get where they are going. If I wanted a nice journey, I wouldn't take a plane to begin with.
Not only windows, but many third party applications require IE to be installed in order to function properly. I know this because I've run into two such apps (in the last 3 months) which failed to work properly because I had IE9 installed, which wasn't supported. There are tons of applications out there that require IE to be installed in order to work correctly. And I'm not just talking about reading help files. I'm talking about core functionality.