I agree... Vista Home Premium came with my Lenovo T60 ThinkPad and I like it. It's stable, even though I never shutdown but instead put the laptop to sleep. IE7 has crashed a couple times, but I can't recall seeing a blue screen yet.
My BIGGEST complaint is Microsoft's confusing tiers of vista... Home, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate. I have Home Premium because I wanted the Media Center stuff, but I also would like the ability to connect to my laptop with Remote Desktop... to do that, I have to go all the way to Ultimate which has an Ultimate price tag, too (and wasn't even offered by Lenovo).
Here's another similar project I heard about... in open source fashion, people that build these machines are supposed to print parts to help others build their own.
http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome
I was patiently waiting for Leopard to be released so I could buy my first mac but I got impatient when a good deal on a Thinkpad (with Vista Premium) came along and took the plunge. Maybe I will still buy a mac, but now that I don't need a laptop there is less of a reason to.
good thing he's a industrial designs student cuz he'd make a crappy business man.
There can be a lot of value in exploring ideas that on the surface seem unworkable... for example, someone like you comes along, tweaks it a little bit, and builds the next big thing. Just ask yourself: Would you have come up with the idea above without this student's idea to build on? His "crappy business idea" was your spark and my guess is you never would have given post cards a second thought without it as a catalyst. He deserves praise, not belittlement.
Try this: Load up the million dollar home page, cross your eyes a little and look just past the screen. Be patient... relax! If you do it right, a 3d image of a can of spam comes into view. Seriously, it's there!
It's like someone has taken every spam email I've gotten in the last couple of years and squeezed them into a million pixels. My head hurts...
It seems to me that if the government goes further down this path then even possessing works that aren't redistributable is going to be like playing with a loaded gun. One false move and the consequences are severe, even if there wasn't the intent to infringe. Is there a point where the potential consequences will be so severe that consumers might just start avoiding anything that has this risk?
How many of your employers use a good bonus year as an excuse to skimp on raises? Sure, bonuses are great and all, but they come and they go... I personally think it's ill advised. When base salaries fall behind the market as soon as the bonuses dry up, it seems like a mass exodous is likely. What do I know, I just need the extra money to pay for gas (most of which is used for my commute)
Yeah, by pricing Maya at $5000+ makes their market pretty small... I wonder how many hobbyists would buy it if they had a reasonaby featured version that was affordable? Yeah, they have a "personal" edition but the very obvious watermarks make it pretty annoying to use.
Here's a hint to software companies like Autocad and Maya: Would you rather have a guy like me spend $200 or $300 just so I can play with a tool the pro's use, or would you rather do without that revenue while I make due with open source? In fact, I'm sure the same Ivory Tower attitude with unix back in the day led to a small revolution you might be familiar with: Linux.
Click here for state of the art open source 3d modelling/rendering in java! Art of Illusion
From the article (about how Thinkpads that are anything but black will be rejected by consumers):
IBM in 1999 offered individual buyers "optional coloured covers" for laptops in Mars Red Metallic, Andromeda Green or Polaris Blue for an extra US$30.
The idea did not take off.
Uh, maybe because the charged $30 extra? Also, the color names sound like they are marketed to 8 year olds. Considering who buys these things, they would have been better off with "Merger Magenta" or "Big-bonus Blue". Seriously, titanium is not that extreme.
The only way is to get some attention outside the geek circles... as soon as the general public starts hearing about ebay (remember, paypal is owned by ebay now) wrapping up Katrina donations in red tape, SA will see some customer service.
What surprises me is that firms seem more than willing to outsource entire projects to another country or to some out of the way rural place, but as soon as the subject of current employees working from home comes up, it immediately get's dismissed for reasons usually related to "making sure the work is getting done".
And the funniest part is that actually I am quite conservative, except I stay away from Limbaugh and Orielly and do my best to think for myself.
I firmly believe criminals must face justice but I also believe the punishment should fit the crime (and "crime" doesn't really fit in this case). Felonies used to be for the worst crimes... murder, rape, or gunpoint robberies. Now they are about some small town school principal trying to prove that he is still in control.
Disclaimer: I don't know for a fact it's the principal of this school driving this stuff. You get the point, though.
in our increasingly vengence based culture. Some principal or admin got his feathers ruffled that student's would actually use the passwords taped to their computers and is now on a rampage to bring them into submission or destroy their lives. I'm surprised they haven't been labeled terrorists by now. This goes way beyond this school district... witness the proliferation of "no tolerance" policies. Everyone makes mistakes, especially teens... we as a society should be focused on correcting mistakes and giving people the chance to learn from them. It's only those who refuse to recognze they made a mistake or continually fail to learn from them that need to be dragged in front of the courts.
"great flash video" totally undersells it.. this is easily the most entertaining thing I've seen from a technology company. If you grew up in the 80's watching Schoohouse Rock, you will totally love it. Check it out.
Not to mention that innovation itself affects the population. Many advances were made in the 17th century allowing people to live longer which just happens to coincide with the peak he discovered. I agree it seems better to compare innovations per year, or at least correct for increases to the average lifespan.
I bought a USB data cable for my LG verizon phone (from ebay, about $7 with shipping)... it came with drivers for windows, and if I recall I was getting 64kbps type speeds. Also, there is no extra charge for data... they charge minutes only.
Could it be because C.S. lewis was one of the greatest apologetic Christian writers of modern times? He was also an atheist in his early life and accepted the Christian faith based on logic and reason (with the influence of J.R.R. Tolkien I understand). Yes, for more dissapointment, Tolkien heavily used Christian themes throughout his stories also, although they were more heavily veiled than in the works of Lewis.
Here are his works catergorized as "Christian" in a faq I found:
The Problem of Pain - 1940
The Screwtape Letters - 1942
Mere Christianity - (Probably his most famous)
The Abolition of Man - 1943
Miracles - 1947
Reflections on the Psalms - 1958
The Four Loves - 1960
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer - 1964
Devotional letters to an imaginary friend
Christian Reunion
Christian Reflections
Fern Seed and Elephants
First and Second Things
God in the Dock
Of This and Other Worlds
Present Concerns
Screwtape Proposes a Toast
Timeless at Heart
P.S. "Apologetic" does not mean making an apology for. In this context it means making a formal justification or defense.
Isn't this exactly what a volcano is? Mantle from the edge of the earth's core forming a plume and eventually braking through the earth's surface? I can see the interest in the geology on the way there, but if their goal is the mantle itself, it seems like there's an easier way. Just wondering...
Sounds like the innovation is a second layer of peanut butter to encase the jam and also the crimping. Here, you be the judge:
Abstract
A method of making a crustless sandwich from two slices of bread with outer crusts, the method comprising: placing a first slice of bread on a platen; forming a mass of a first food spread onto the central portion of the first slice of bread in a position spaced inwardly from a marginal area where the mass is formed with an inner lower layer with an outer rim extending upwardly from the lower layer to define a closed pocket or receptacle recess in the mass; placing a second food spread in the receptacle recess; closing the receptacle recess with a layer of the first food spread generally coextensive with the mass and supported on the outer rim of the mass to encapsulate the second food spread into a center composite food layer; placing a second slice of bread over the first slice to cover the center composite food layer; cutting the bread slices in unison in a cut pattern to remove the crusts of the slices; and, pressing the two bread slices together by force through the slices against a pressure surface on the platen to crimp the slices into a crustless sandwich.
Whoever this shroud was on, they weren't wrapped like a mummy. They were placed on top of the lower part, and the upper part was wrapped over their head and draped on top of them like a sheet. It still could be faked, but I think they have proven the image (which is slightly distorted) is consistent with cloth being draped over a man.
He goes searching for warez (using four keywords related to popular software) and when he finds it he declares 99.9% of IRC usage is illegal? What about the linux support, gaming forums, etc... and there have to still be people that use IRC for plain old chat. I think these numbers are a bit misleading.
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I agree... Vista Home Premium came with my Lenovo T60 ThinkPad and I like it. It's stable, even though I never shutdown but instead put the laptop to sleep. IE7 has crashed a couple times, but I can't recall seeing a blue screen yet. My BIGGEST complaint is Microsoft's confusing tiers of vista... Home, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate. I have Home Premium because I wanted the Media Center stuff, but I also would like the ability to connect to my laptop with Remote Desktop... to do that, I have to go all the way to Ultimate which has an Ultimate price tag, too (and wasn't even offered by Lenovo).
Here's another similar project I heard about... in open source fashion, people that build these machines are supposed to print parts to help others build their own. http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome
I was patiently waiting for Leopard to be released so I could buy my first mac but I got impatient when a good deal on a Thinkpad (with Vista Premium) came along and took the plunge. Maybe I will still buy a mac, but now that I don't need a laptop there is less of a reason to.
Innovation is not an act, it's a process.
It's like someone has taken every spam email I've gotten in the last couple of years and squeezed them into a million pixels. My head hurts...
It seems to me that if the government goes further down this path then even possessing works that aren't redistributable is going to be like playing with a loaded gun. One false move and the consequences are severe, even if there wasn't the intent to infringe. Is there a point where the potential consequences will be so severe that consumers might just start avoiding anything that has this risk?
How many of your employers use a good bonus year as an excuse to skimp on raises? Sure, bonuses are great and all, but they come and they go... I personally think it's ill advised. When base salaries fall behind the market as soon as the bonuses dry up, it seems like a mass exodous is likely. What do I know, I just need the extra money to pay for gas (most of which is used for my commute)
I'd like tho know what the brand is also...
Here's a hint to software companies like Autocad and Maya: Would you rather have a guy like me spend $200 or $300 just so I can play with a tool the pro's use, or would you rather do without that revenue while I make due with open source? In fact, I'm sure the same Ivory Tower attitude with unix back in the day led to a small revolution you might be familiar with: Linux.
Click here for state of the art open source 3d modelling/rendering in java! Art of Illusion
IBM in 1999 offered individual buyers "optional coloured covers" for laptops in Mars Red Metallic, Andromeda Green or Polaris Blue for an extra US$30. The idea did not take off.
Uh, maybe because the charged $30 extra? Also, the color names sound like they are marketed to 8 year olds. Considering who buys these things, they would have been better off with "Merger Magenta" or "Big-bonus Blue". Seriously, titanium is not that extreme.
The only way is to get some attention outside the geek circles... as soon as the general public starts hearing about ebay (remember, paypal is owned by ebay now) wrapping up Katrina donations in red tape, SA will see some customer service.
What surprises me is that firms seem more than willing to outsource entire projects to another country or to some out of the way rural place, but as soon as the subject of current employees working from home comes up, it immediately get's dismissed for reasons usually related to "making sure the work is getting done".
I don't get it... what makes Inventor Z any different from Inventor A? They both seem to get screwed in a first to file country.
I firmly believe criminals must face justice but I also believe the punishment should fit the crime (and "crime" doesn't really fit in this case). Felonies used to be for the worst crimes... murder, rape, or gunpoint robberies. Now they are about some small town school principal trying to prove that he is still in control.
Disclaimer: I don't know for a fact it's the principal of this school driving this stuff. You get the point, though.
That is a perfect example of the vengeful attitude I am talking about. Thanks for helping me make my point, AC.
in our increasingly vengence based culture. Some principal or admin got his feathers ruffled that student's would actually use the passwords taped to their computers and is now on a rampage to bring them into submission or destroy their lives. I'm surprised they haven't been labeled terrorists by now. This goes way beyond this school district... witness the proliferation of "no tolerance" policies. Everyone makes mistakes, especially teens... we as a society should be focused on correcting mistakes and giving people the chance to learn from them. It's only those who refuse to recognze they made a mistake or continually fail to learn from them that need to be dragged in front of the courts.
"great flash video" totally undersells it.. this is easily the most entertaining thing I've seen from a technology company. If you grew up in the 80's watching Schoohouse Rock, you will totally love it. Check it out.
Not to mention that innovation itself affects the population. Many advances were made in the 17th century allowing people to live longer which just happens to coincide with the peak he discovered. I agree it seems better to compare innovations per year, or at least correct for increases to the average lifespan.
I bought a USB data cable for my LG verizon phone (from ebay, about $7 with shipping)... it came with drivers for windows, and if I recall I was getting 64kbps type speeds. Also, there is no extra charge for data... they charge minutes only.
Here are his works catergorized as "Christian" in a faq I found:
P.S. "Apologetic" does not mean making an apology for. In this context it means making a formal justification or defense.
Isn't this exactly what a volcano is? Mantle from the edge of the earth's core forming a plume and eventually braking through the earth's surface? I can see the interest in the geology on the way there, but if their goal is the mantle itself, it seems like there's an easier way. Just wondering...
A method of making a crustless sandwich from two slices of bread with outer crusts, the method comprising: placing a first slice of bread on a platen; forming a mass of a first food spread onto the central portion of the first slice of bread in a position spaced inwardly from a marginal area where the mass is formed with an inner lower layer with an outer rim extending upwardly from the lower layer to define a closed pocket or receptacle recess in the mass; placing a second food spread in the receptacle recess; closing the receptacle recess with a layer of the first food spread generally coextensive with the mass and supported on the outer rim of the mass to encapsulate the second food spread into a center composite food layer; placing a second slice of bread over the first slice to cover the center composite food layer; cutting the bread slices in unison in a cut pattern to remove the crusts of the slices; and, pressing the two bread slices together by force through the slices against a pressure surface on the platen to crimp the slices into a crustless sandwich.
Whoever this shroud was on, they weren't wrapped like a mummy. They were placed on top of the lower part, and the upper part was wrapped over their head and draped on top of them like a sheet. It still could be faked, but I think they have proven the image (which is slightly distorted) is consistent with cloth being draped over a man.
He goes searching for warez (using four keywords related to popular software) and when he finds it he declares 99.9% of IRC usage is illegal? What about the linux support, gaming forums, etc... and there have to still be people that use IRC for plain old chat. I think these numbers are a bit misleading.