...and if backlight fading becomes a problem, expect manufacturers to make it an easily replaceable option - just like changing a fluorescent tube (which it generally is) - more opportunity for the manufacturers to push 'spares' that the videophiles will replace every month or so.
Wouldn't it really freak out the scientists if Voyager disappeared from 'view' and then later started to come towards us again from the opposite direction!!!
I once asked the security officers in the main post office in New York if I could take some pictures and said it was fine provided that the faces of the public employees weren't included.
on a separate trip to the USA, in Phoenix AZ., my father asked a couple of cops if he could take a picture of their two cars parked side by side and they said "sure" provided they were not actually in the picture.
It always amazes me when people on a self-admitted geek news forum complain about high-tech gadgets having more features.
Yep, it's geek city round here - but even geeks appreciate the difference between "wow, that's a cool gadget I'd like to own" and "WTF - that's totally pointless, expensive techno-bling"
Someone elsewhere used the phrase iSheep for people that buy stuff like that - very well put.
Woah - notice that the 'Sticky pad' is not just a 'Sticky pad' - it's a 'Sticky pad *XL*'. Once upon a time, it would have been the 'Sticky pad 2000', but after the turn of the millennium, that's old-hat and so now it's gotta be an 'XL' - that will add approximately $15 to the cost of anything. Stand by for the incredibly-similar-looking 'XL Pro' design that will be $5 more.
Oh, then there's the 'woolly' pouch thingy that's nothing special - but wait - it was 'created' by a 'designer' so that'll add $20 at least.
In the heady days of the LaserJet and LaserJet+, the sales team passed me a technical query - a customer wanted to know whether the LaserJet was supported by GRIX. Well, I knew of Unix, AIX, Xenix, but GRIX was a new one on me so I called HP (no Internet yet) and explained the problem. HP promised to find out if there was a driver for GRIX.
A few hours later, HP admitted defeat and could not only not find a driver for GRIX, but no-one knew anything about this strange OS. As the customer was from a university, we concluded it must be an in-house OS.
I called the customer and was soon speaking to an oriental gentleman who indeed confirmed that he was interested in GRIX support for the HP LaserJet as this might mean he would buy a number of printers. After some more discussion, the customer re-iterated that it would be great if the LaserJet did GRIX characters..."you know, printing GRIX - GRIX characters".
BING.... that's the light in my brain coming on....
The customer wanted to know whether the LaserJet could print Greek characters (he worked in the Maths Department)!
I once left a message for a customer to call me back 'regarding his Pagemaker problem'. By the time the message had been written down, placed on his desk (he was out to lunch) and then noticed by someone else, it had morphed into 'your doctor has called - there is a problem with your pacemaker'.
By the time the man had arrived back at work, the entire company was looking for him convinced he was going to keel over any minute gripping his chest (yes, he DID have a pacemaker fitted!). Fortunately, when he saw my name on the note he realised what had happened and was quite alive and cheery when he called me.
I am glad that M$ has cleared this up because while I am no fan of piracy, I think Microsoft has made enough money from its products to allow for a little 'free use' - for example, the laptop I am using now to type this message is using a copy of XP enabled using a keygen program and I don't see how this is likely to affect prof.*(!"$% NO CARRIER
Think about what you have said though - if I am living in an area with a dense population of Fon points in my vicinity I am either going to be at home using my own, or a few blocks away at a friend's house using theirs - which I could do now anyway so there's no benefit. Maybe you think I am likely to drive a few blocks away and sit in a car and work 'because I can'!?
OK, maybe I could get continuous coverage as I walk or drive to a friends house - erm, I suppose that would be fine if I am waiting to pounce on an eBay deal or am making a VoIP call as I walk or drive (breaking the law!)???
If I'm in a pub and there's a choice of free or paid access, sure I am going to use the free stuff - but just wait for that clause to come into play that says you may only use 'our' wifi in our pub - a bit like restaurants don't like you taking in your own food.
If we blanket cover a neighbourhood there will be little benefit except perhaps that you could sit in a local park and work because your house is too far away for the signal to reach but a friend lives across the road. Having worked outdoors, it's a pain in the ass - msot laptop screens are crap in sunlight, there's battery charge issues and security too.
I honestly think if it would be great if this took off, but there are too many commercial interests that are going to get bitten if it does so there will be a great incentive from corporate and telco-land to make life difficult for implementers.
Michaels provide a low-cost solution, but all your requests get routed through Bangalore and when you send an email the reply that comes back bears no relation to the one you sent and you can barely understand the contents
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...and if backlight fading becomes a problem, expect manufacturers to make it an easily replaceable option - just like changing a fluorescent tube (which it generally is) - more opportunity for the manufacturers to push 'spares' that the videophiles will replace every month or so.
May I have my 'x' back please!
Thank you - I had to scroll down several inches to see that comment but you have restored my faith in the Slashdot community.
I nearly thought that one had slipped through the next.
Almost good enough spelling for Digg.
Wouldn't it really freak out the scientists if Voyager disappeared from 'view' and then later started to come towards us again from the opposite direction!!!
The Commodore 64 had an analogue white noise generator in the SID ship and its value could be read via a port. Simple.
We can always go back and make another recording - we could call it something like "Moon 2 - Astro's Return" or "The All New Moon Landing".
Just as long as the Astronauts aren't joined by a excruciatingly annoying yappy little dog called 'Scrappy Moon' I'll be happy.
...for an article summary that uses so many words yet is totally void of any coherent detail.
If, however, your local council (in the UK) is Arun District Council:
/just sayin
1) Many of the email addresses on their Web site bounce back as 'unknown recipient'
2) I sent an email to the planning department 3 weeks ago (no bounce!) and still have not received a reply.
PS: Any Arun DC IT support staff read this site? If so, fix your email and tell your staff to READ THEIR MAIL.
Cool Dugg+...oh..WTF...wrong site?
Ric Romero is on the case.
I once asked the security officers in the main post office in New York if I could take some pictures and said it was fine provided that the faces of the public employees weren't included.
on a separate trip to the USA, in Phoenix AZ., my father asked a couple of cops if he could take a picture of their two cars parked side by side and they said "sure" provided they were not actually in the picture.
It always amazes me when people on a self-admitted geek news forum complain about high-tech gadgets having more features.
Yep, it's geek city round here - but even geeks appreciate the difference between "wow, that's a cool gadget I'd like to own" and "WTF - that's totally pointless, expensive techno-bling"
Someone elsewhere used the phrase iSheep for people that buy stuff like that - very well put.
"System on a chip or at least integrated GPU and CPU cool."
A die holding an AMD core and an ATI GPU may be 'neat', 'fab', 'brill' or even 'ace' - but 'cool' - I think not!
"Joomla will get it"
There, fixed it for you!
Well done! Says it all.
Woah - notice that the 'Sticky pad' is not just a 'Sticky pad' - it's a 'Sticky pad *XL*'. Once upon a time, it would have been the 'Sticky pad 2000', but after the turn of the millennium, that's old-hat and so now it's gotta be an 'XL' - that will add approximately $15 to the cost of anything. Stand by for the incredibly-similar-looking 'XL Pro' design that will be $5 more.
Oh, then there's the 'woolly' pouch thingy that's nothing special - but wait - it was 'created' by a 'designer' so that'll add $20 at least.
Gotta love consumerism!
Must go over to Digg and see how they are wetting their pants over this.... ;-p
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alte rnative.htm
Nuff said
Netcraft? That you?
In the heady days of the LaserJet and LaserJet+, the sales team passed me a technical query - a customer wanted to know whether the LaserJet was supported by GRIX. Well, I knew of Unix, AIX, Xenix, but GRIX was a new one on me so I called HP (no Internet yet) and explained the problem. HP promised to find out if there was a driver for GRIX.
.... that's the light in my brain coming on....
A few hours later, HP admitted defeat and could not only not find a driver for GRIX, but no-one knew anything about this strange OS. As the customer was from a university, we concluded it must be an in-house OS.
I called the customer and was soon speaking to an oriental gentleman who indeed confirmed that he was interested in GRIX support for the HP LaserJet as this might mean he would buy a number of printers. After some more discussion, the customer re-iterated that it would be great if the LaserJet did GRIX characters..."you know, printing GRIX - GRIX characters".
BING
The customer wanted to know whether the LaserJet could print Greek characters (he worked in the Maths Department)!
Can't recall whether a sale was made!!
I once left a message for a customer to call me back 'regarding his Pagemaker problem'. By the time the message had been written down, placed on his desk (he was out to lunch) and then noticed by someone else, it had morphed into 'your doctor has called - there is a problem with your pacemaker'.
By the time the man had arrived back at work, the entire company was looking for him convinced he was going to keel over any minute gripping his chest (yes, he DID have a pacemaker fitted!). Fortunately, when he saw my name on the note he realised what had happened and was quite alive and cheery when he called me.
I am glad that M$ has cleared this up because while I am no fan of piracy, I think Microsoft has made enough money from its products to allow for a little 'free use' - for example, the laptop I am using now to type this message is using a copy of XP enabled using a keygen program and I don't see how this is likely to affect prof.*(!"$% NO CARRIER
Being in Europe (UK), I am aware of the topology!
Think about what you have said though - if I am living in an area with a dense population of Fon points in my vicinity I am either going to be at home using my own, or a few blocks away at a friend's house using theirs - which I could do now anyway so there's no benefit. Maybe you think I am likely to drive a few blocks away and sit in a car and work 'because I can'!?
OK, maybe I could get continuous coverage as I walk or drive to a friends house - erm, I suppose that would be fine if I am waiting to pounce on an eBay deal or am making a VoIP call as I walk or drive (breaking the law!)???
If I'm in a pub and there's a choice of free or paid access, sure I am going to use the free stuff - but just wait for that clause to come into play that says you may only use 'our' wifi in our pub - a bit like restaurants don't like you taking in your own food.
If we blanket cover a neighbourhood there will be little benefit except perhaps that you could sit in a local park and work because your house is too far away for the signal to reach but a friend lives across the road. Having worked outdoors, it's a pain in the ass - msot laptop screens are crap in sunlight, there's battery charge issues and security too.
I honestly think if it would be great if this took off, but there are too many commercial interests that are going to get bitten if it does so there will be a great incentive from corporate and telco-land to make life difficult for implementers.
In an ideal world, maybe....