I am a bit of a geek and I could make this in my sleep.
I still buy CDs, however, they are all safe up on a shelf in a room with no CD player. I bring them home, put them in my PC and make a copy to the hard drive. You can keep your 6 disk changer, I can right-click a folder --> "play in winamp" and have a shuffled playlist of all my CDs with no space between songs.
I don't have one of these (yet), but I do have 2 friends that do. Not this exact model but something darn close. NIETHER of them are geeks. They are just music lovers with computers.
in most states, you can broadcast video of anything in public and usually in the privacy of your home. When you add sound to the mix, it often becomes illegal (the laws were written for phone taps and 'bugs' that record only sound).
Making a law that requires permission from anyone in a video in public would kill news broadcasts "from the street" because you could not get permission from everyone walking or driving behind the newscaster.
There was a lawsuit recently by a man who was told by his friends that nude video of him was for sale on a gay porn site. The man had been a wrestler in college and during a meet in Michigan (I think), someone had set up hidden cameras in the locker room and filmed the guys getting dressed and undressed. Not only did the law permit this and prevent the unsuspecting men from stopping the sales of the tape, it did not require those making money from it to give any royalties to the 'stars', either.
the keyboard is full-sized. I don't want a keyboard any larger than full-sized, unless it's a split keyboard. Most people don't like those, though, and that might be a bad idea.
maybe next year, their big innovation will be a laptop with a keyboard that slides apart so you can have it either way.
Sharepoint Portal Server uses something pretty much exactly like this for document management. I wrote a small web based application for my last employer's intranet that did the same thing. I didn't see it as innovative or cool, even, I thought it was just "the way to do it".
As far as "free software" having anything at all to do with it, I just don't get that.
and your version of politics sounds like the third side of the coin (if you consider Dems and Pubs to be 2 sides of the same coin).
Reading something often does not make you close minded. I read the writings of those who disagree with my opinions MUCH more often than those who agree with me. Why would I want to read opinions that are my own? I already know them.
when a customer buys a piece of code from me, it's theirs to do with as they will. And, barring any conflicts due to confidential data and/or business methods, it is also mine to do with as I wish. This is not always the case when I am simply brought in to create something new of my client's design, not to fix something that already exists. Any support they want later will also cost them, whether it's me altering code, setting it up again elsewhere, or helping another programmer make changes.
As for one of the earlier posters who stated that if I used this as a business model I would be out panhandling, I would say you don't have a clue how professional services contractors (big, like Sun/IBM, or small like an individual) do business
I disagree with both of you on this. If you'd used the word "some", you'd be correct.
I have several distinct scenes in my mind from age 3, I talked to my mom about them once, she confirmed (and explained) them. They were pretty random, nothing earth-shattering. My memory from age 5 up is pretty intact, or so I think.
someone calls you and says thier PC won't start. You come by, see that it is unplugged, plug it in, and start it. You write it up, invoice them, and leave.
2 days later, their friend Bob calls. "Hey, remember when you called me 2 days ago and said your computer didn't start? How'd you fix it?"
They WILL tell him how you fixed it and they should, quite frankly. Sure this is a very lame example but, in my opinion, this is truly what it all boils down to.
however, asking you to keep your knowledge a secret is a bit rude. Newsgroups, Bulletin Boards, etc, are what keep many of us going. If not for people sharing their knowledge with me, I would still be trying to "learn HTML" probably.
I think the most important thing about freedom of speech is that we excercise it with honesty. Speak critically of the government (and it's officeholders) but do it honestly. Say Bush messed up but only when it's true.
That is my biggest problem with political discussion (and MS vs *nix when/.) these days: people will lie, fabricate, stretch the truth, exagerate, or whatever you want to call it in order to further their own viewpoint. Lying is the opposite of the truth and only serves to move us farther from the truth when the truth should be our goal, IMO. I am constantly called a liberal by those who are blindly fighting for the conservative team and am called a conservative by my liberal friends because I refuse to take crap from either side in washington. I call it like it is, whether I voted for the guy or not. Politics should not be a team sport.
do you prefer people read the paper through the front glass of the paperbox instead of buying it? A zip code, sex, and age is a lot cheaper than $1 per paper, it's harmless and, IMO, a very fair trade for free use of their resources.
Just what is the problem with telling them where you're from and your age?
Seriously. ASP.Net running on Linux will be the best thing that could happen to.Net, from the developers, to the clients, to MS. If MS really wants to put the competition under, then.Net HAS to run on Linux.
Back to the Future II & III
The Graduate
The Sixth Sense 10
You Only Live Twice Tony Hawk's Summer 2001 Gigantic Skateboard Tour some random episodes of Seinfeld, the Simpsons, and The Family Guy
My room mate is gone, visiting his family, my family (20+ of us, anyway) will be gathering Saturday, so I'm enjoying the time alone, phone turned off; beer, coffee and food keeping me company.:)
Now there is only one thing left before people can switch (well, besides functionality):
Program names that a) make sense and/or b) are easily pronounced by English speaking (and reading) humans.
how the @#$# do you pronounce "XPde"? All those cool little programs that people insist on using in Linux don't even have vowels in the half the time. Users don't want to use the command line and they don't want to have to try to remember program names that look like commands and are only pronouncible by nerds (like me).
if I had to rely on Apple...
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I would still not be able to buy a computer. So I would never have bought one and started programming and gotten a great job and made a lot of money and had a company car and gotten laid off and lost the car and been out of work for the last 11 months and 2 days.
maybe I'm on Apple's side here after all. Down with MS!
MS would benefit from cross-browser compatibility because that would give more reason to use the MX line for development. The SERVER technology is where they would benefit, by making Flash remoting work natively with.NET, requiring windows for Coldfusion MX, etc.
Flash is the epitomy of cross browser and would be an extremely power tool in getting more windows machines in the server room.
in 2001, I was eagerly waiting for the beta to start for city of heroes (http://www.cityofheroes.com), a super hero MMPRPG. A year later and they haven't even posted another mpeg to keep me salivating.
honestly, price is ALL I've paid any attention to at all after I heard the specs of the OS. So I noticed the $1699.xx model. That is still above and beyond what I will pay for a personal computer, so tablet PCs are still "beyond" me.
But not for long. When they get HALF as smart as us, they'll be producing these for dimes on the dollar and we'll all have them.
I hope.
I want to be able to lay on my sofa and read slashdot, news.bbc.co.uk, msnbc.com, etc, etc, etc... I want to lay on my sofa reading the web just like I lay on my sofa reading a magazine. THAT is why I want a tablet. THAT is the TRUE value of a tablet: freedom from the chair. This chair holds me like a slave right now. The ability to escape this chair and read long articles from the sofa sounds like heaven to me.
I am a programmer and have rarely seen code that I didn't think I could improve on. And I'm sure the same goes for everyone that has ever seen code that I have written.
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I replied to you instead of the parent...
I am a bit of a geek and I could make this in my sleep.
I still buy CDs, however, they are all safe up on a shelf in a room with no CD player. I bring them home, put them in my PC and make a copy to the hard drive. You can keep your 6 disk changer, I can right-click a folder --> "play in winamp" and have a shuffled playlist of all my CDs with no space between songs.
I don't have one of these (yet), but I do have 2 friends that do. Not this exact model but something darn close. NIETHER of them are geeks. They are just music lovers with computers.
in most states, you can broadcast video of anything in public and usually in the privacy of your home. When you add sound to the mix, it often becomes illegal (the laws were written for phone taps and 'bugs' that record only sound).
Making a law that requires permission from anyone in a video in public would kill news broadcasts "from the street" because you could not get permission from everyone walking or driving behind the newscaster.
There was a lawsuit recently by a man who was told by his friends that nude video of him was for sale on a gay porn site. The man had been a wrestler in college and during a meet in Michigan (I think), someone had set up hidden cameras in the locker room and filmed the guys getting dressed and undressed. Not only did the law permit this and prevent the unsuspecting men from stopping the sales of the tape, it did not require those making money from it to give any royalties to the 'stars', either.
the keyboard is full-sized. I don't want a keyboard any larger than full-sized, unless it's a split keyboard. Most people don't like those, though, and that might be a bad idea.
maybe next year, their big innovation will be a laptop with a keyboard that slides apart so you can have it either way.
Sharepoint Portal Server uses something pretty much exactly like this for document management. I wrote a small web based application for my last employer's intranet that did the same thing. I didn't see it as innovative or cool, even, I thought it was just "the way to do it".
As far as "free software" having anything at all to do with it, I just don't get that.
and your version of politics sounds like the third side of the coin (if you consider Dems and Pubs to be 2 sides of the same coin).
Reading something often does not make you close minded. I read the writings of those who disagree with my opinions MUCH more often than those who agree with me. Why would I want to read opinions that are my own? I already know them.
when a customer buys a piece of code from me, it's theirs to do with as they will. And, barring any conflicts due to confidential data and/or business methods, it is also mine to do with as I wish. This is not always the case when I am simply brought in to create something new of my client's design, not to fix something that already exists. Any support they want later will also cost them, whether it's me altering code, setting it up again elsewhere, or helping another programmer make changes.
As for one of the earlier posters who stated that if I used this as a business model I would be out panhandling, I would say you don't have a clue how professional services contractors (big, like Sun/IBM, or small like an individual) do business
I disagree with both of you on this. If you'd used the word "some", you'd be correct.
I have several distinct scenes in my mind from age 3, I talked to my mom about them once, she confirmed (and explained) them. They were pretty random, nothing earth-shattering. My memory from age 5 up is pretty intact, or so I think.
someone calls you and says thier PC won't start. You come by, see that it is unplugged, plug it in, and start it. You write it up, invoice them, and leave.
2 days later, their friend Bob calls. "Hey, remember when you called me 2 days ago and said your computer didn't start? How'd you fix it?"
They WILL tell him how you fixed it and they should, quite frankly. Sure this is a very lame example but, in my opinion, this is truly what it all boils down to.
however, asking you to keep your knowledge a secret is a bit rude. Newsgroups, Bulletin Boards, etc, are what keep many of us going. If not for people sharing their knowledge with me, I would still be trying to "learn HTML" probably.
didn't this already happen in the peak of the D&D days?
but the girls just laugh when I ask them for money.
I think the most important thing about freedom of speech is that we excercise it with honesty. Speak critically of the government (and it's officeholders) but do it honestly. Say Bush messed up but only when it's true.
/.) these days: people will lie, fabricate, stretch the truth, exagerate, or whatever you want to call it in order to further their own viewpoint. Lying is the opposite of the truth and only serves to move us farther from the truth when the truth should be our goal, IMO. I am constantly called a liberal by those who are blindly fighting for the conservative team and am called a conservative by my liberal friends because I refuse to take crap from either side in washington. I call it like it is, whether I voted for the guy or not. Politics should not be a team sport.
That is my biggest problem with political discussion (and MS vs *nix when
do you prefer people read the paper through the front glass of the paperbox instead of buying it? A zip code, sex, and age is a lot cheaper than $1 per paper, it's harmless and, IMO, a very fair trade for free use of their resources.
Just what is the problem with telling them where you're from and your age?
MTV used to show music? It got so bad that they had to launch M2 (now called MTV2) in order to show music again.
VH1's tagline was always "Music First",pretty soon they're going to have to launch VH2...
ASP is MS proprietary and ChiliSoft never got sued, right?
Seriously. ASP.Net running on Linux will be the best thing that could happen to .Net, from the developers, to the clients, to MS. .Net HAS to run on Linux.
If MS really wants to put the competition under, then
Back to the Future II & III
:)
The Graduate
The Sixth Sense
10
You Only Live Twice
Tony Hawk's Summer 2001 Gigantic Skateboard Tour
some random episodes of Seinfeld, the Simpsons, and The Family Guy
My room mate is gone, visiting his family, my family (20+ of us, anyway) will be gathering Saturday, so I'm enjoying the time alone, phone turned off; beer, coffee and food keeping me company.
Now there is only one thing left before people can switch (well, besides functionality):
Program names that a) make sense and/or b) are easily pronounced by English speaking (and reading) humans.
how the @#$# do you pronounce "XPde"? All those cool little programs that people insist on using in Linux don't even have vowels in the half the time. Users don't want to use the command line and they don't want to have to try to remember program names that look like commands and are only pronouncible by nerds (like me).
I would still not be able to buy a computer. So I would never have bought one and started programming and gotten a great job and made a lot of money and had a company car and gotten laid off and lost the car and been out of work for the last 11 months and 2 days.
maybe I'm on Apple's side here after all. Down with MS!
MS would benefit from cross-browser compatibility because that would give more reason to use the MX line for development. The SERVER technology is where they would benefit, by making Flash remoting work natively with .NET, requiring windows for Coldfusion MX, etc.
Flash is the epitomy of cross browser and would be an extremely power tool in getting more windows machines in the server room.
in 2001, I was eagerly waiting for the beta to start for city of heroes (http://www.cityofheroes.com), a super hero MMPRPG. A year later and they haven't even posted another mpeg to keep me salivating.
honestly, price is ALL I've paid any attention to at all after I heard the specs of the OS. So I noticed the $1699.xx model. That is still above and beyond what I will pay for a personal computer, so tablet PCs are still "beyond" me. But not for long. When they get HALF as smart as us, they'll be producing these for dimes on the dollar and we'll all have them. I hope.
I want to be able to lay on my sofa and read slashdot, news.bbc.co.uk, msnbc.com, etc, etc, etc... I want to lay on my sofa reading the web just like I lay on my sofa reading a magazine. THAT is why I want a tablet. THAT is the TRUE value of a tablet: freedom from the chair. This chair holds me like a slave right now. The ability to escape this chair and read long articles from the sofa sounds like heaven to me.
I am a programmer and have rarely seen code that I didn't think I could improve on. And I'm sure the same goes for everyone that has ever seen code that I have written.