-Speed up start up time -if you also have NS installed don't put everything in the same place -better migration from NS -cleaner uninstall and reversion back to prior application defaults
It's bad for you. Yes it's bad, no wait, it might be bad, no it's ok, really it is, we think, or not. Nope it really is bad. Or maybe not or it's good or it's ok in moderation. We think that it's, no it's bad. Really bad, really really bad. Oh edit that, it's probably ok, we think, yeah definitely.
Oh OK let me clarify it then. You WILL get 25 to life no parole for transporting 75 grams of cocaine as opposed to 8-15 years with parole after 85% of time served for 1st degree manslaughter.
Now was that clearer? Or did you want another example.
But hey, if you actually want to criminalize contract law and IP law then great, I hope that when you default on your mortgage they drag you off to debtors prison.
Well you can murder someone, actually murder them and get 8 years as opposed to waving a laser pointer at a plane and getting 25 years. So it stands to reason that all you fuckwits who elected an administration who believes that a corporation has the same civil and legal rights as a person woyuld also champion laws that turn civil or contract disputes into criminal laws.
Next up; downloading music will land you in Attica.
Well that's partially true. Most of our new machine installs where the person actually has the clout to get a new external monitor at all w/o resorting to stealing one out of a lab, gets one. The rest of us get older, odder, can't sell them to the public versions of our notebook machines.
Is there a sudden crash in the worldwide availabilty of desk space? Especially given that most non slaves get flat screens now?
First off I can see tremendous fragility problems with monkeying with the screen angle and flopping the screen and the entire computer onto the desk, or worse, off the desk.
I guess you'll see these soon on every desk in every TV show soon but in terms of reality it doesn't really answer much of a need.
Non compete contracts are generally worthless, legally. They have been struck down nearly every time someone has tried to enforce them except in cases where intelletual property is involved.
for all you merciless lawn-n-order tools out there screaming how "How dare They!!!!" it's important to remember that your employer actually does not own you, assuming of course you're not a real-life slave. Em-ploy-ees and I emphasize that to drive home the point that they are Employees, as opposed to Partners do in fact...
Now I know this is gonna send some of you Radical Republicans over the edge.....
Have a Right, to leave and form another company or collect sea shells or any other damn thing.
Dat's right Massr Jim, We done gwin Freed by dat Mister Lincoln.
so really what you're arguing about is, I guess that they had the temerity to negotiate a separate business deal during business hours.
OMG! Somebody call the Productivity Police.
In fact let's lock up all you/. fuckwits who are stealing....no Raping your sacred Employers while you twaddle away on this board.
Or, you can shut the fuck up and tend to your fucking looms.
That is, Apple could have absolutely no plans to market a cheapo iCrap. And some webby out their saying otherwise could actually screw with their suppliers and technology development partners who might feel blindsided.
As I said before - Apple is a high margin low volume company. They make $400 iPods they are probably not going to make iCraps for a 100 bucks more.
Please, this is just a bunch of psycholibertarians furious that they can't put a coin slot on your very soul. Any 'vendor' who objects to me using their outlets which are out in the open needs to find a new customer to replace me.
I surrender, and at that I will now write a book about my work at Philco television in the 1940's developing the control dials for the front of the set.
Transmeta came to the fore with a promise that sounded almost as dramatic as the Scientific Revolution. The problem with that is, you have to be right.
Too bad really, because it's just one more indicator that the era of significant investment in new technology is looping ever shorter. The day when a company would invest in Xerox machine development for 20 years like Halloid did is I think, gone. Now you have to show a tiny incremental improvement right away and the hell with quantum leaps.
And large oligopolies are in the best position to do that. Show minimal improvement with maximal crash and burn to upstarts. Didn't the Transmeta guys learn anything from Bill Gates??
It's kind of dull reading the memoir of a 50 year old obscenely wealthy ex developer who did something stupedous 20 years ago. I mean isn't it little like Newton in middle age telling you how smart he used to be?
Because it's very very hard to predict the possible outcomes of events that have already not happened we tend to over compensate for future possible events. One could make the case that because of the paltry number of nuclear power plant accidents in the US since 1945 that entire country have been oversold on the need to manage those risks. So it is with Y2K, etc.
do I carry all that crap around? most of the time 2 or three devices, or I carry one or two and leave the other in the car.
Yes I'll admit that coverage and range are a problem. I'm Sprint PCS and I'm often in digital roaming or worse all over town which is a pain.
Bluetooth? yeah whatever connects to the PC - I don't care, I don't care if it's a cable either. I don't care about Voip over cell. I would like to be able to connect the cell handset to my home landline service and use its connection with or without my cell phone number or landline number whichever is easier.
Don't care about powerplugs - everybody at home is responsible for their own and I don't want to own that problem of keeping track of it for them nor do I want them to lose my charger for me either. Don't care about battery standardization - longer life would be good, I said that before.
Service? drop Nextel or come over to Sprint - connection quality is not that good, or as good as ATT but with ATT I almost never got a dial tone. Within Sprint it goes through all the time. But the sound quality is like a WW2 bomber pilot movie.
Generally the phone fit and finish should be better or, at least have more field rugged models like the Nextels that are all rubber coated and whatnot. Kids drop phones.
Study after study shows that only about 15% of the customers use most of the high end features that their phones provide. I for one find email absurdly difficult to use. I don't have a camera phone but I appreciate the ability to receive a picture someone else sends me - like the exact shape of that curtain rod bracket while I'm in the store for example.
Moreover most people over the age of 15 don't really consume ringtones, wall paper and screen savers.
OK text messaging is ok but again, data entry is a fucking chore even with T9.
But the reason that all these phones come with teleporters and sex aids is because phones are basically loss leaders for the service providers. They give most of them away for free so there is little incentive for phone builders to build better FREE phones. Instead they just pile on more features to justify the extra 50 - 100 - 150 dollars per unit because that is the only way they will actually make any money at all.
But I really don't understand what all the criticism is about. For the stated $25 a month you can get a plain jane prepaid candybar phone that gets calls and makes calls. I had one for over a year no problem - a Nokia 6631 and I could limit the spending by simply prepaying any amount I wished, no bills no problem.
Maybe all the critics should look into that.
In the meantime I think these new Samsungs here are a good fist stab at convergence. If I can get rid of my phone, PDA, camera and MP3 player in one clip and replace them with one device I can insure through the phone company and I can synch it and back it up with my PC I'm pretty far along the way to getting rid of a lot of complexity I'd rather not live with.
Maybe all the specs aren't up to what each of the devices on their own can do (Camera rez, audio codec, battery life) but they will be. The first Palmpilot phones were about $1000 now they are $300.
But what I'd like to see is more business oriented and common sense features and fewer teenage features.
That's what I use. AFAIK one of them is unbreakable or unbreakable to any realistic level of real world efort.
At least the data will be protected. If the machine is not, oh well, that's what insurance is for.
There are a few companies that sell explosive CDs a-la Mission Impossible. I'm sure someone could rig up a program that fires one off in the machine unless a password is entered on a regular interval. If not then the machine immolates itself. Or something like that.
Is the secret. Delta IV has the ability to loft heavy packages as does Ariane-5, Proton, Long March III and whatever the Japanese have ready.
Of course you need a serviceable profitable launch facility wherever you decided to launch from and whatever you decide to launch with. That's the real driver. NASA would need to develop a launch facility for Delta IV of the type and in the location that they can maximize their dollars income and minimize dollars per Kilogram cost.
The Russians have a similar problem with Dnepr in that they also want to abandon Baikonur and use Svobodny 18 in the Eastern Siberia. Problem is that Svobodny 18 is not built for Dnepr.
First for most orbital insertions they need a facility that faces the ocean to the east because that is typically the launch direction. Next, it can't be too far north or south unless its specifically designed for polar orbits (Hello NRO Keyhole spysats!!) Last it has to be multipackage capable as well like Ariane-5 in Guyiana which just sent up 7 different satellite packages from different customers.
Only way to make it pay without the One Gigantic Government Payload mentality that NASA has today.
Yeah almost. If it works for 15 months it's $10/month. Probably what you would spend in CDRs if you had to burn them yourself and spend the time doing it.
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Ok so that's one. Other things to improve are
-Speed up start up time
-if you also have NS installed don't put everything in the same place
-better migration from NS
-cleaner uninstall and reversion back to prior application defaults
It's bad for you. Yes it's bad, no wait, it might be bad, no it's ok, really it is, we think, or not. Nope it really is bad. Or maybe not or it's good or it's ok in moderation. We think that it's, no it's bad. Really bad, really really bad. Oh edit that, it's probably ok, we think, yeah definitely.
Maybe not robots but certainly bionically enhanced people by then.
Oh OK let me clarify it then. You WILL get 25 to life no parole for transporting 75 grams of cocaine as opposed to 8-15 years with parole after 85% of time served for 1st degree manslaughter.
Now was that clearer? Or did you want another example.
But hey, if you actually want to criminalize contract law and IP law then great, I hope that when you default on your mortgage they drag you off to debtors prison.
Well you can murder someone, actually murder them and get 8 years as opposed to waving a laser pointer at a plane and getting 25 years. So it stands to reason that all you fuckwits who elected an administration who believes that a corporation has the same civil and legal rights as a person woyuld also champion laws that turn civil or contract disputes into criminal laws.
Next up; downloading music will land you in Attica.
It really IS time to overthrow the state.
Well that's partially true. Most of our new machine installs where the person actually has the clout to get a new external monitor at all w/o resorting to stealing one out of a lab, gets one. The rest of us get older, odder, can't sell them to the public versions of our notebook machines.
Is there a sudden crash in the worldwide availabilty of desk space? Especially given that most non slaves get flat screens now?
First off I can see tremendous fragility problems with monkeying with the screen angle and flopping the screen and the entire computer onto the desk, or worse, off the desk.
I guess you'll see these soon on every desk in every TV show soon but in terms of reality it doesn't really answer much of a need.
That has got to be the craziest thing I have read recently. You OWE an employer fealty because they don't treat you badly?
Wow - Welcome to the monkey house. I hope you have some rich relatives ready to leave you something.
Non compete contracts are generally worthless, legally. They have been struck down nearly every time someone has tried to enforce them except in cases where intelletual property is involved.
for all you merciless lawn-n-order tools out there screaming how "How dare They!!!!" it's important to remember that your employer actually does not own you, assuming of course you're not a real-life slave. Em-ploy-ees and I emphasize that to drive home the point that they are Employees, as opposed to Partners do in fact...
/. fuckwits who are stealing....no Raping your sacred Employers while you twaddle away on this board.
Now I know this is gonna send some of you Radical Republicans over the edge.....
Have a Right, to leave and form another company or collect sea shells or any other damn thing.
Dat's right Massr Jim, We done gwin Freed by dat Mister Lincoln.
so really what you're arguing about is, I guess that they had the temerity to negotiate a separate business deal during business hours.
OMG! Somebody call the Productivity Police.
In fact let's lock up all you
Or, you can shut the fuck up and tend to your fucking looms.
That is, Apple could have absolutely no plans to market a cheapo iCrap. And some webby out their saying otherwise could actually screw with their suppliers and technology development partners who might feel blindsided.
As I said before - Apple is a high margin low volume company. They make $400 iPods they are probably not going to make iCraps for a 100 bucks more.
Please, this is just a bunch of psycholibertarians furious that they can't put a coin slot on your very soul. Any 'vendor' who objects to me using their outlets which are out in the open needs to find a new customer to replace me.
I surrender, and at that I will now write a book about my work at Philco television in the 1940's developing the control dials for the front of the set.
That's too bad, because at the end of the day wheels are round, the sky is blue and water is wet.
This stuff, the business of it isn't rocket science but the people who write about the people who do it, think it is.
Oh Eazel, excuse me. Let's all pray to Mecca now. So why is this bookworthy again? Oh yeah, because of who it is, not what it is.
Transmeta came to the fore with a promise that sounded almost as dramatic as the Scientific Revolution. The problem with that is, you have to be right.
Too bad really, because it's just one more indicator that the era of significant investment in new technology is looping ever shorter. The day when a company would invest in Xerox machine development for 20 years like Halloid did is I think, gone. Now you have to show a tiny incremental improvement right away and the hell with quantum leaps.
And large oligopolies are in the best position to do that. Show minimal improvement with maximal crash and burn to upstarts. Didn't the Transmeta guys learn anything from Bill Gates??
It's kind of dull reading the memoir of a 50 year old obscenely wealthy ex developer who did something stupedous 20 years ago. I mean isn't it little like Newton in middle age telling you how smart he used to be?
In more ways than one. You couldn't make this stuff up if you were writing for Arrested Development.
Because it's very very hard to predict the possible outcomes of events that have already not happened we tend to over compensate for future possible events. One could make the case that because of the paltry number of nuclear power plant accidents in the US since 1945 that entire country have been oversold on the need to manage those risks. So it is with Y2K, etc.
do I carry all that crap around? most of the time 2 or three devices, or I carry one or two and leave the other in the car.
Yes I'll admit that coverage and range are a problem. I'm Sprint PCS and I'm often in digital roaming or worse all over town which is a pain.
Bluetooth? yeah whatever connects to the PC - I don't care, I don't care if it's a cable either. I don't care about Voip over cell. I would like to be able to connect the cell handset to my home landline service and use its connection with or without my cell phone number or landline number whichever is easier.
Don't care about powerplugs - everybody at home is responsible for their own and I don't want to own that problem of keeping track of it for them nor do I want them to lose my charger for me either. Don't care about battery standardization - longer life would be good, I said that before.
Service? drop Nextel or come over to Sprint - connection quality is not that good, or as good as ATT but with ATT I almost never got a dial tone. Within Sprint it goes through all the time. But the sound quality is like a WW2 bomber pilot movie.
Generally the phone fit and finish should be better or, at least have more field rugged models like the Nextels that are all rubber coated and whatnot. Kids drop phones.
Study after study shows that only about 15% of the customers use most of the high end features that their phones provide. I for one find email absurdly difficult to use. I don't have a camera phone but I appreciate the ability to receive a picture someone else sends me - like the exact shape of that curtain rod bracket while I'm in the store for example.
Moreover most people over the age of 15 don't really consume ringtones, wall paper and screen savers.
OK text messaging is ok but again, data entry is a fucking chore even with T9.
But the reason that all these phones come with teleporters and sex aids is because phones are basically loss leaders for the service providers. They give most of them away for free so there is little incentive for phone builders to build better FREE phones. Instead they just pile on more features to justify the extra 50 - 100 - 150 dollars per unit because that is the only way they will actually make any money at all.
But I really don't understand what all the criticism is about. For the stated $25 a month you can get a plain jane prepaid candybar phone that gets calls and makes calls. I had one for over a year no problem - a Nokia 6631 and I could limit the spending by simply prepaying any amount I wished, no bills no problem.
Maybe all the critics should look into that.
In the meantime I think these new Samsungs here are a good fist stab at convergence. If I can get rid of my phone, PDA, camera and MP3 player in one clip and replace them with one device I can insure through the phone company and I can synch it and back it up with my PC I'm pretty far along the way to getting rid of a lot of complexity I'd rather not live with.
Maybe all the specs aren't up to what each of the devices on their own can do (Camera rez, audio codec, battery life) but they will be. The first Palmpilot phones were about $1000 now they are $300.
But what I'd like to see is more business oriented and common sense features and fewer teenage features.
That's what I use. AFAIK one of them is unbreakable or unbreakable to any realistic level of real world efort.
At least the data will be protected. If the machine is not, oh well, that's what insurance is for.
There are a few companies that sell explosive CDs a-la Mission Impossible. I'm sure someone could rig up a program that fires one off in the machine unless a password is entered on a regular interval. If not then the machine immolates itself. Or something like that.
Is the secret. Delta IV has the ability to loft heavy packages as does Ariane-5, Proton, Long March III and whatever the Japanese have ready.
Of course you need a serviceable profitable launch facility wherever you decided to launch from and whatever you decide to launch with. That's the real driver. NASA would need to develop a launch facility for Delta IV of the type and in the location that they can maximize their dollars income and minimize dollars per Kilogram cost.
The Russians have a similar problem with Dnepr in that they also want to abandon Baikonur and use Svobodny 18 in the Eastern Siberia. Problem is that Svobodny 18 is not built for Dnepr.
First for most orbital insertions they need a facility that faces the ocean to the east because that is typically the launch direction. Next, it can't be too far north or south unless its specifically designed for polar orbits (Hello NRO Keyhole spysats!!) Last it has to be multipackage capable as well like Ariane-5 in Guyiana which just sent up 7 different satellite packages from different customers.
Only way to make it pay without the One Gigantic Government Payload mentality that NASA has today.
Yeah almost. If it works for 15 months it's $10/month. Probably what you would spend in CDRs if you had to burn them yourself and spend the time doing it.
Products that don't work
Service providers that can't make it work
Customers that don't care if it does
Executives that don't know IF it does
Solutions in search of problem that doesn't exist
Designed to fail, working as designed.