From TFA " 80% of mobile phones being sold today have cameras on them, yet the number of people who actually know how to use them or get the images off the phones ranges between 10% and 50%"
So I guess your wrong about cameras being popular with consumers. If they were so popular people would learn how to use them.
When I got my current phone it was the free give away phone at the time. It has a camera and video function as well as bluetooth, micro sd card, mp3 player, web browsing, and more. I know how to use all the features, no I'm not bragging, I'm just pointing out that I know how to use my phone, but I don't NEED most of the extra features and I don't use them.
Besides, I think the real reason the phone companies are lamenting people not fully utilizing all their phone features is money. If your using all the phone features your paying more money on your service plan either by having a more expensive plan with data service or having a basic plan and pay through the nose per text message or per kbyte of data transferred.
Cheers, now start using ALL of your phone features and pay more money to the phone companies.
In America the Unions are more like legal thugs. We have such a thing as "Closed Shops". This means you must join or be a member of the correct union as a condition of being hired. This is different from "Union Shops" where you MUST join the union and pay union dues OR pay fair share union dues and not get any of the so called protection of the union.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_shop
I was a member of the AFSCME Union at one time when I did bio-medical electronics. The best thing I ever did was to get out of the union and get into the IT world as a programmer. My salary, work life and level of respect received from my employer improved 10 fold or more since. I will never go back to a union where the inept are treated and rewarded as equally as the competent. In my experience the unions only ensure that everybody is equally miserable.
I had to think for a few minutes to remember which router I owned. After I configured it the way I wanted I have not needed to reboot or login to it for any reason. I have a D-link DIR 655 http://support.dlink.com/products/view.asp?productid=DIR-655. After trying several routers to replace the one that finally fried after two years I settled on this D-link.
Well, after an hour and a half of browsing and news reading my FF memory usage has increased to 208 Mb used and 1.01Gb o virtual memory. And this is after closing two of my six tabs. Seems memory is not being released when tabs are closed.
They may have the Windows version memory under control, but the OSX (Leopard) version of FF 3.0 is still a PIG. Just starting up FF with 6 tabs (1 is Slashdot) and the memory usage is over 160Mb and virtual memory used is over 900Mb.
And did they have to make the OSX skin so darn ugly?
"What, exactly, entitles people with weaker genes to a health discount at the expense of someone else?"
OK, then why not just not provide health care to those with poor genetics. Then Darwinism will take over and only the people with good genetics will survive and the gene pool will be purified. It will take a many generations to work itself out but it can be done faster if we speed up the process. After all, this is all Hitler was really trying to do!
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This is scary stuff. Tell the Government to get out of our lives!
Your right that the Republican party leadership has been hijacked, but does not make the rest of the 'non-Republicans'. We intend to take the party back. It will take a few years.
Also, many of use knew President Bush was not a true Conservative, but given the choice of Bush or Gore, we chose Bush. Now many people are claiming that John McCain is a Conservative. The "Conservative Bar" is being lowered by the Republican leadership. Thus by today's standards, President Kennedy was a Conservative. But hey, all the political party's change over the years. There was a time when the Democrat party was not full of Socialists.
Actually I would like to see a binding "None of the Above" ballot option. That way if None of the Above gets the most votes then we get to choose a whole new field of candidates. Yeah I know, it will never happen and we would have to change the Constitution to do it, but it would be interesting.
Cheers, and as I always say "Vote Conservative"
http://www.wilgeno.com
True, and it was the Clinton era justice department that went after Microsoft. The trial just lasted well into the Bush admini1stration. But do not confuse the Republican In Name Only's (RINO's, Aka Senator John McCain (Rino) Az, Senator Norm Coleman (Rino) MN, Senator Olympia Snowe (Rino) ME and many many others including President G.W. Bush), with conservatives or conservatism.
You may not need to be told to cleanup your house for sale, but you'd be surprised at how many do need to be told. And how many more need to have the work done for them.
Actually LifeLock does more that just file Fraud Alerts on your behalf. The also get your information removed from marketing mailing lists, telemarketing lists and now they are attempting to check known sources of stolen identity information to see if your info has been stolen.
LifeLock only works if those granting credit actually check with the credit bureaus. If a loan shark or other such lender just loans someone money on a signature note with out any verification then anyone can still target your identity and hurt your credit rating. No one can stop that with out mandating that those businesses use the credit bureaus or they forfeit their right to collect if they did not verify the person identity.
And yes, I am a subscriber to LifeLock. And yes, the amount of junk mail that I receive has fallen dramatically. The same with the number of telemarketing calls. The only side-effect so far is that I have less paper to shred. I'd rather not deal with contacting every credit bureau or marketing company. To me it's worth the $10 a month.
The contract clearly states what is and is not covered as far as identity or credit theft. If your not happy with what they cover then don't sign up for the service. No company should be held liable for your not wanting to read the contract or worse, your lying in the sign up process and claiming you read the contract when you didn't. My wife and I scoured the contract (which was written in plain English) before signing. We knew the limitations and benefits before signing. No one coerced us to sign up and no one lied about what service they provided.
I've said for a long time that Linux is not desktop ready. And I have been pilloried for say so on Slashdot. It is by far one of the best or possibly the best server OS. The way I see it is every OS has a place and a purpose. Windows makes a decent desktop for my mother (and belongs in the trash). To ask her to install even Ubuntu would be too much to ask. Over the years a few companies have made great progress in building a desktop Linux. Linspire (formly Lindows), Ubuntu, PC Linux and more. They've done great work. I truly want them to continue doing great work. Now more than ever they need to survive and be successful.
I can envision a future where we have RedHat and a few others doing server only Linux OS'es and other companies focusing on desktop Linux. This may be the successful business model. Time will tell. Until then the Ubuntu's of the world need to continue polishing the desktop so well that even my mother can install it on her desktop, laptop and make them talk to the shared printer on her own.
Then we need application. Today there are far more desktop apps for Linux than ever before. This is good. We need more. We need more. We need more.
I have also stated that I want an OS that just works. No fussing or mussing. For me Windows is NOT that OS. It just doesn't work well for me. So I bought the next best thing. A Mac Book Pro. I get a solid stable OS, unix under the hood and applications to do my job. That makes me happy.
Well, Al Gore is on the BOD of Apple, Inc. Whether your a Gore fan or foe you have to admit that if he really wanted he may be able to sway certain people in certain Government agencies.
He may have a already stepped in to protect Jobs on Stock Option back dating. Other CEOs were fined and forced to resign for the same tactics and Jobs was spared.
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I want to Patent the process of filing a Troll Patent.
This sounds like a public challenge to Adobe to finally clean up Flash player. Yeah I know they inherited the code from Macromedia, but now it is their code.
Is is it about time to terminate China's Preferred Trade Status with all the problems with Chinese products that are dangerous, poisonous, fake, bogus and fraudulent.
Both political parties have voted in favor of keeping China's preferred trade status. Why? It can't be the superior products we get to buy from China.
The Stirling engine was the first thing I thought of when I read the description. The Stirling engine is very inefficient in practice and lacks any real world power, but considering when it was first invented it was a brilliant idea. It's about time someone went back to look at old ideas that were discarded to see if modern day technology can make the unfeasible feasible.
This is probably better classified as a Solid State Stirling Engine (err, electrical generator).
That is a scary thought. Depending on the passport data it need not limit itself to country of origin. It could also scan for religion affiliation or gender. As I look at the passport form I see you are asked about birth place, employer and employer. Both could be useful in targeting someone. Not to mention this is also the recipe for a very precise signature bomb in which it only targets one person. So if first name and last name match the bombs target then kaboom.
ThinkGeek.com has been selling RFID blocking wallets and passport holders for a while. I already own the wallet. It contains a Faraday cage that blocks signals from reading RFID credit cards or in my case my building security card. I've been putting off getting a passport, but I will most likely need on so I will be making yet another purchase from ThinkGeek.com. They already get most of my extra money every month.
You claim "intellectual property" is a new idea? Maybe to you. Intellectual property is an umbrella term for several legal concepts including copyrights, trademarks and patents.
While the first known use of the term "intellectual property" is in an 1845 Massachusetts Circuit Court ruling, the history of copyright law goes back to the invention of the printing press and the increasing spread of literacy. The King of England created the Licensing Act of 1662 to prevent the illegal copying of written works at the time by unauthorized publishers. While this law was passed after Shakespeare wrote his works it was well before Sir Isaac Newton published or even first conceived his writings. Hence you arguments are WRONG.
Furthermore, the various laws that eventually led to the concept of Intellectual Property were passed to protect those that held the legal right to the works in question. Prior to these laws theft of ideas, writings, and concepts was uncontrolled. You call this theft "the free exchange of ideas". It's only free for those that steal the ideas. The person whose ideas you stole have endured an expense of time and energy and possible monetary loss. The whole point of these laws is to let the creator, inventor, discoverer of works determine the usage of their works. If they choose to let them be free to the public that is as much their right as if they choose to charge the public or exclude the public all together. You do not have a right to an others ideas or fruit of their labors in the same manor as you do not have a right to an others personal belongings.
In response to your post....
The traffic control lights at the on ramps in the Twin Cities are not programmed to work properly. They are programmed to make driving worse in order to try to convince people to use mass transit. This was proven a few years ago when we the people forced a study to be done and shut the ramp lights off for a month or two. Traffic conditions actually improved after people got used to the changes.
The ramp lights were turned back on and MNDOT claimed to have reprogrammed some ares to fix ramp controls that were causing problems. There is no proof they changed anything and if they did there is no proof that those changes are still in place.
The real cause of traffic problems is governments thinking they can control our behaviors like rats in a maze.
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From TFA " 80% of mobile phones being sold today have cameras on them, yet the number of people who actually know how to use them or get the images off the phones ranges between 10% and 50%" So I guess your wrong about cameras being popular with consumers. If they were so popular people would learn how to use them.
When I got my current phone it was the free give away phone at the time. It has a camera and video function as well as bluetooth, micro sd card, mp3 player, web browsing, and more. I know how to use all the features, no I'm not bragging, I'm just pointing out that I know how to use my phone, but I don't NEED most of the extra features and I don't use them.
Besides, I think the real reason the phone companies are lamenting people not fully utilizing all their phone features is money. If your using all the phone features your paying more money on your service plan either by having a more expensive plan with data service or having a basic plan and pay through the nose per text message or per kbyte of data transferred.
Cheers, now start using ALL of your phone features and pay more money to the phone companies.
If you squint enough and after drinking through 2.5 periods of a Detriot Redwings vs. Minnesota Wild playoff game 5.
BTW: The icon could also look like Lacrosse or golf. Get ready for hate mail from those fans also.
And he did not read the tag line "news for nerds"?
In America the Unions are more like legal thugs. We have such a thing as "Closed Shops". This means you must join or be a member of the correct union as a condition of being hired. This is different from "Union Shops" where you MUST join the union and pay union dues OR pay fair share union dues and not get any of the so called protection of the union.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_shop
I was a member of the AFSCME Union at one time when I did bio-medical electronics. The best thing I ever did was to get out of the union and get into the IT world as a programmer. My salary, work life and level of respect received from my employer improved 10 fold or more since. I will never go back to a union where the inept are treated and rewarded as equally as the competent. In my experience the unions only ensure that everybody is equally miserable.
I had to think for a few minutes to remember which router I owned. After I configured it the way I wanted I have not needed to reboot or login to it for any reason. I have a D-link DIR 655 http://support.dlink.com/products/view.asp?productid=DIR-655. After trying several routers to replace the one that finally fried after two years I settled on this D-link.
Well, after an hour and a half of browsing and news reading my FF memory usage has increased to 208 Mb used and 1.01Gb o virtual memory. And this is after closing two of my six tabs. Seems memory is not being released when tabs are closed.
They may have the Windows version memory under control, but the OSX (Leopard) version of FF 3.0 is still a PIG. Just starting up FF with 6 tabs (1 is Slashdot) and the memory usage is over 160Mb and virtual memory used is over 900Mb.
And did they have to make the OSX skin so darn ugly?
"What, exactly, entitles people with weaker genes to a health discount at the expense of someone else?"
OK, then why not just not provide health care to those with poor genetics. Then Darwinism will take over and only the people with good genetics will survive and the gene pool will be purified. It will take a many generations to work itself out but it can be done faster if we speed up the process. After all, this is all Hitler was really trying to do!
</sarcasm>
This is scary stuff. Tell the Government to get out of our lives!
Your right that the Republican party leadership has been hijacked, but does not make the rest of the 'non-Republicans'. We intend to take the party back. It will take a few years.
Also, many of use knew President Bush was not a true Conservative, but given the choice of Bush or Gore, we chose Bush. Now many people are claiming that John McCain is a Conservative. The "Conservative Bar" is being lowered by the Republican leadership. Thus by today's standards, President Kennedy was a Conservative. But hey, all the political party's change over the years. There was a time when the Democrat party was not full of Socialists.
Actually I would like to see a binding "None of the Above" ballot option. That way if None of the Above gets the most votes then we get to choose a whole new field of candidates. Yeah I know, it will never happen and we would have to change the Constitution to do it, but it would be interesting.
Cheers, and as I always say "Vote Conservative"
http://www.wilgeno.com
True, and it was the Clinton era justice department that went after Microsoft. The trial just lasted well into the Bush admini1stration. But do not confuse the Republican In Name Only's (RINO's, Aka Senator John McCain (Rino) Az, Senator Norm Coleman (Rino) MN, Senator Olympia Snowe (Rino) ME and many many others including President G.W. Bush), with conservatives or conservatism.
You may not need to be told to cleanup your house for sale, but you'd be surprised at how many do need to be told. And how many more need to have the work done for them.
Publicly disclosing your SSN is a violation of the contract and may void your contractual right to file a claim against LifeLock for identity theft.
That clause is in the contract. All you have to do is read the clear plain English.
Actually LifeLock does more that just file Fraud Alerts on your behalf. The also get your information removed from marketing mailing lists, telemarketing lists and now they are attempting to check known sources of stolen identity information to see if your info has been stolen.
LifeLock only works if those granting credit actually check with the credit bureaus. If a loan shark or other such lender just loans someone money on a signature note with out any verification then anyone can still target your identity and hurt your credit rating. No one can stop that with out mandating that those businesses use the credit bureaus or they forfeit their right to collect if they did not verify the person identity.
And yes, I am a subscriber to LifeLock. And yes, the amount of junk mail that I receive has fallen dramatically. The same with the number of telemarketing calls. The only side-effect so far is that I have less paper to shred. I'd rather not deal with contacting every credit bureau or marketing company. To me it's worth the $10 a month.
The contract clearly states what is and is not covered as far as identity or credit theft. If your not happy with what they cover then don't sign up for the service. No company should be held liable for your not wanting to read the contract or worse, your lying in the sign up process and claiming you read the contract when you didn't. My wife and I scoured the contract (which was written in plain English) before signing. We knew the limitations and benefits before signing. No one coerced us to sign up and no one lied about what service they provided.
Be responsible for your actions people.
I've said for a long time that Linux is not desktop ready. And I have been pilloried for say so on Slashdot. It is by far one of the best or possibly the best server OS. The way I see it is every OS has a place and a purpose. Windows makes a decent desktop for my mother (and belongs in the trash). To ask her to install even Ubuntu would be too much to ask. Over the years a few companies have made great progress in building a desktop Linux. Linspire (formly Lindows), Ubuntu, PC Linux and more. They've done great work. I truly want them to continue doing great work. Now more than ever they need to survive and be successful.
I can envision a future where we have RedHat and a few others doing server only Linux OS'es and other companies focusing on desktop Linux. This may be the successful business model. Time will tell. Until then the Ubuntu's of the world need to continue polishing the desktop so well that even my mother can install it on her desktop, laptop and make them talk to the shared printer on her own.
Then we need application. Today there are far more desktop apps for Linux than ever before. This is good. We need more. We need more. We need more.
I have also stated that I want an OS that just works. No fussing or mussing. For me Windows is NOT that OS. It just doesn't work well for me. So I bought the next best thing. A Mac Book Pro. I get a solid stable OS, unix under the hood and applications to do my job. That makes me happy.
Thats all I have to say.
The site looks nice. And being open source they should be saving some money!!!
Why not encourage more African-American and Hispanics to take more CS courses? Then these courses will meet their educational objectives.
Instead, their response is to punish those that wish to learn so they can look like they are helping minorities.
Well, Al Gore is on the BOD of Apple, Inc. Whether your a Gore fan or foe you have to admit that if he really wanted he may be able to sway certain people in certain Government agencies.
He may have a already stepped in to protect Jobs on Stock Option back dating. Other CEOs were fined and forced to resign for the same tactics and Jobs was spared.
--
I want to Patent the process of filing a Troll Patent.
This sounds like a public challenge to Adobe to finally clean up Flash player. Yeah I know they inherited the code from Macromedia, but now it is their code.
Is is it about time to terminate China's Preferred Trade Status with all the problems with Chinese products that are dangerous, poisonous, fake, bogus and fraudulent. Both political parties have voted in favor of keeping China's preferred trade status. Why? It can't be the superior products we get to buy from China.
please define when "originally the term was defined", I've heard the term 'Rice Burner' back in the early 80's and it wasn't new then.
Even if I did leave my doors and windows unlocked anyone that entered without my person would be doing so illegally and subject to my wrath.
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Just because the door is unlocked does not mean you have permission to enter.
The Stirling engine was the first thing I thought of when I read the description. The Stirling engine is very inefficient in practice and lacks any real world power, but considering when it was first invented it was a brilliant idea. It's about time someone went back to look at old ideas that were discarded to see if modern day technology can make the unfeasible feasible.
This is probably better classified as a Solid State Stirling Engine (err, electrical generator).
Cool stuff either way.
That is a scary thought. Depending on the passport data it need not limit itself to country of origin. It could also scan for religion affiliation or gender. As I look at the passport form I see you are asked about birth place, employer and employer. Both could be useful in targeting someone. Not to mention this is also the recipe for a very precise signature bomb in which it only targets one person. So if first name and last name match the bombs target then kaboom.
Thanks for scaring me.
ThinkGeek.com has been selling RFID blocking wallets and passport holders for a while. I already own the wallet. It contains a Faraday cage that blocks signals from reading RFID credit cards or in my case my building security card. I've been putting off getting a passport, but I will most likely need on so I will be making yet another purchase from ThinkGeek.com. They already get most of my extra money every month.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/brain/whereisit.cgi?t=RFID&x=0&y=0
You claim "intellectual property" is a new idea? Maybe to you. Intellectual property is an umbrella term for several legal concepts including copyrights, trademarks and patents.
While the first known use of the term "intellectual property" is in an 1845 Massachusetts Circuit Court ruling, the history of copyright law goes back to the invention of the printing press and the increasing spread of literacy. The King of England created the Licensing Act of 1662 to prevent the illegal copying of written works at the time by unauthorized publishers. While this law was passed after Shakespeare wrote his works it was well before Sir Isaac Newton published or even first conceived his writings. Hence you arguments are WRONG.
Furthermore, the various laws that eventually led to the concept of Intellectual Property were passed to protect those that held the legal right to the works in question. Prior to these laws theft of ideas, writings, and concepts was uncontrolled. You call this theft "the free exchange of ideas". It's only free for those that steal the ideas. The person whose ideas you stole have endured an expense of time and energy and possible monetary loss. The whole point of these laws is to let the creator, inventor, discoverer of works determine the usage of their works. If they choose to let them be free to the public that is as much their right as if they choose to charge the public or exclude the public all together. You do not have a right to an others ideas or fruit of their labors in the same manor as you do not have a right to an others personal belongings.
In response to your post....
The traffic control lights at the on ramps in the Twin Cities are not programmed to work properly. They are programmed to make driving worse in order to try to convince people to use mass transit. This was proven a few years ago when we the people forced a study to be done and shut the ramp lights off for a month or two. Traffic conditions actually improved after people got used to the changes.
The ramp lights were turned back on and MNDOT claimed to have reprogrammed some ares to fix ramp controls that were causing problems. There is no proof they changed anything and if they did there is no proof that those changes are still in place.
The real cause of traffic problems is governments thinking they can control our behaviors like rats in a maze.