Seriously. For most non-geekish people, navigating around the UI features that are already there are beyond most people's patience and skill and memory.
I'd be happy if UIs were designed well enough so that even the features they have were obvious let alone the more obscure tricks. If I had to expose any young person to computers today I'd open up a portfolio of commonly usd apps and take them through their paces using however that person EXPECTS the application to be used.
Yesterday I was in Target and MP3 players have reached the point where they are packaged in that impossible to open plastic card and hung on metal pegboard hooks in lots of 10. Even with extra storage we're still talking in the $150 range. Why would anyone care what OS it runs? It's practically disposable at that point.
Seems to me that if you're demanding document interoperability between MS office and Mac you've already got some problems that any OpenOffice-ish thing might not fix. Wouldn't it be better to implement something else in your workplace, where networked groups can work and share together? If there is a corporate requirement to coexist Macs with PCs why do all the Macs have to accomodate? Why don't you find something both can use? If your PC heads won't move an inch, then trust me, it's only a matter of time before they toss out all your Macs too.
Northern climes will naturally attract many people to flock to some warmer clime, real or not and zepplin hangers seems less risky than the Indian Ocean nowadays. Just sayin.
I said this months ago and many of you pooh-poohed as nonsense. But committees that accrete information based on whomever is motivated enough to motivate others to contribute is clearly establishing a bias and an agenda. But even if I'm right and most of you are wrong, you are wrong but you don't really care. And this begs the question, what is the value of accuracy or truth?
If you're in school and you're doing one of the 3 million papers you will do in your school career about the Civil War, let's say and you go to Wiki and it's chockful of subtle agendized "Wawr of Northun Aggresshun" revisionism. So what? You will probably get a good grade if you live in the south and you will probably get a pass if you live in the north and all its multicultural tolerance and whatnot.
A few weeks ago for example the entire nationalized abstinence sex ed curriculum was exposed as a fraud, jammed with flat out inaccurate information. So? It wasn't an accident and the fact that it's exposed really doesn't change anyone's mind. So in the end, truth is whatever you can use to further your own aims and accuracy be damned.
I and I suspect most of you over the age of 15 don't need a 'phone' primarilly designed for game play. Though I can't decide which I need more; a device that plays audio CDs and MP3 CDs as well as solid state storage MP3s, or, a phone/PDA combo that can replace an MP3 player as well, as long as the MP3 player doesn't tax the battery much more than the phone how.
I would like better more commonsense PDA functions in the phone such as Palm conduits to Lotus notes and the ability to sync to a web based public calendar. I'd also like a better phone book, one that allows better integration of email addresses.
And as a long time T9 user - back when it was used on Palmpilots as well, I have to say, that dog won't hunt anymore. It's too tedious to use effectively for text messaging and email. I think that Samsung and company are just going to have to bite the bullet on this one and provide a fold up keyboard tht connects to the obscure and seemingly useless data port on on VI660 phone in order for me to effectively use PCS vision services.
And I probably won't get a camera phone unless and until it's a better cheaper and more efficient replacement for a REAL digital camera. And at that, it has to plug directly into a photo printer and unload and print just like the cameras of today.
In five years I want to get rid of my laptop, PDA, phone, MP3 and CD player and use a single device that doesn't cost as much as a car, runs 2 full days on battery power and is 100% backup-able to some storage device on my homeLAN like a network NAS box.
It's time for a concerted effort to mass mail our files back to them. I thing 200GB per day for the next three years to the MPAA/RIAA and overpeer members and any and all named individuals in those organizations would be the minimum.
I would also like to see a concerted effort to indentify the personal email accounts and personal websites to bombard them with several hundred GB of files per day.
It's pure bullshit. The effects to the US from neglected to micromanage the companies themselves the way they believe they can micromanage their own customers to the edge of outright criminal behavior is the same. On what's the busiest travel day of the year the entire system comes to a screaching halt no different than the US declaring the grounding of all aircraft on 9-11. But hey, I got modded down by dumbass hillbilly redneck who thinks failure is a good idea.
Great news. Now that $8/hr mouth breathers get to treat everyone like a terrorist, it's good to know that infrastructure is incredibly fragile and built like shit so that the economic effects are more or less the same. Maybe we should apply some of that you're-a-terrorist mentality to the people who run the fucking airlines...?
Basically this is an attempt to get the rest of the country to build a city for the benefit of a few Texans who will then suck the profits out all the economic activity on it. This is practically the privatization of government itself.
Part of the Strategic Arms reduction treaty, Russia is scheduled to remove all 308 R-36M MIRV systems from active service. These are hoisted by Dnepr boosters. Since 1999 the Russians have been looking for a commercial application for the Dnepr launch system. They've had a few failures and a few problems, but who hasn't? (ESA Ariane-5 for example).
So the Russians seem to have found a good use for the Dnepr system. But the remaining problem for them is that the Russians want to stop using Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakstan and start using Svobodny 18 in Far Eastern Siberia. Problem is that Svobodny 18 isn't built for the Dnepr.
This recent submarine earthquake occured when a ridge of the floor of Indian ocean a few HUNDRED miles long dropped 90 - 300 feet. A collapsing island even a large one could never generate that much power.
Developed originally for the R36M ICBM/FO program scheduled for decommissioning 2007, the Dnepr is now looked at for commercial uses. Mixed bag of success. Economic problems persist.
A bigger problem will be where Russia phases out Baikonur in favor of their own launch site at Svobodny 18, which isn't built for Dnepr.
People don't really detect a perceivable performance boost for less than 25% more actual performace. And the perception of that 25% varies wildly from 'fneh' to 'wowieeeee'.
But I'm talking to a bunch of gamers for whom that last 0.4% performance boost is worth more than a hot cheerleader full of X.
Yes whatever. Windows code is as stable and reliable as a lightswitch. And we live on The Big Rock Candy Mountain too. I heard it from the Tooth Fairy.
Seriously, no one wants to be tech support at home for their own cranky television set. This is precisely what would happen with WMCE.
I can't just picture being interrupted mid movie to have my television set request permission to download a new codec, which requires a reboot and of course either makes no difference at all to me or doesn't work at all.
Better they should provide a $400 'helper station' a sort of cross between a docking station and something not even developed yet, a device with it's own CPU and RAM that fills out the iPOD's basic capability in order to make it real computer. That way for about $800 sans monitor you could have a fully functional machine that undocks to a iPod.
They weren't 'tempting fate'. neither were they fully aware of what it COULD do. It's very much the same as those poor slobs who refused to get off Mt. St. Helens. When something almost never occurs, when it does, people don't really become alarmed enough. This is why early warning might be a boondoggle. At supersonic speed, tsunamis only provide a few minutes of early warning anyway. It's not practical or an efficient use of resources to think that in 30 minutes you could clear a beach of 30,000 people while they are all walking TOWARD the water.
On Nov 13 1970 a typhoon driven storm surge killed 500,000 people in Bangladesh and in April 1991 another killed 140,000. While this is a bad event and a highly unsusal one it pales compared to that.
And I will add that reports in Sri Lanka are coming back that thousands of people flocked TO THE BEACH to watch the storm surge because it was so unusual. It's HIGHLY UNLIKELY that an early warning system would have saved very many people.
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Seriously. For most non-geekish people, navigating around the UI features that are already there are beyond most people's patience and skill and memory.
I'd be happy if UIs were designed well enough so that even the features they have were obvious let alone the more obscure tricks. If I had to expose any young person to computers today I'd open up a portfolio of commonly usd apps and take them through their paces using however that person EXPECTS the application to be used.
Yesterday I was in Target and MP3 players have reached the point where they are packaged in that impossible to open plastic card and hung on metal pegboard hooks in lots of 10. Even with extra storage we're still talking in the $150 range. Why would anyone care what OS it runs? It's practically disposable at that point.
Oh sorry. My warp drive burned out after only 2.2 parsecs. My bad.
Seems to me that if you're demanding document interoperability between MS office and Mac you've already got some problems that any OpenOffice-ish thing might not fix. Wouldn't it be better to implement something else in your workplace, where networked groups can work and share together? If there is a corporate requirement to coexist Macs with PCs why do all the Macs have to accomodate? Why don't you find something both can use? If your PC heads won't move an inch, then trust me, it's only a matter of time before they toss out all your Macs too.
In terms of years operating and miles run. Whatever these people did, we need to bottle it, pronto.
This thread is a good example of my point, isn't it? We're all of us a bunch of largely unqualified amateurs positing our pet projects and peeves.
Northern climes will naturally attract many people to flock to some warmer clime, real or not and zepplin hangers seems less risky than the Indian Ocean nowadays. Just sayin.
No it's still alive, we just call it moral relativism.
I would print a digital picture to hang on my wall for example.
I said this months ago and many of you pooh-poohed as nonsense. But committees that accrete information based on whomever is motivated enough to motivate others to contribute is clearly establishing a bias and an agenda. But even if I'm right and most of you are wrong, you are wrong but you don't really care. And this begs the question, what is the value of accuracy or truth?
If you're in school and you're doing one of the 3 million papers you will do in your school career about the Civil War, let's say and you go to Wiki and it's chockful of subtle agendized "Wawr of Northun Aggresshun" revisionism. So what? You will probably get a good grade if you live in the south and you will probably get a pass if you live in the north and all its multicultural tolerance and whatnot.
A few weeks ago for example the entire nationalized abstinence sex ed curriculum was exposed as a fraud, jammed with flat out inaccurate information. So? It wasn't an accident and the fact that it's exposed really doesn't change anyone's mind. So in the end, truth is whatever you can use to further your own aims and accuracy be damned.
I and I suspect most of you over the age of 15 don't need a 'phone' primarilly designed for game play. Though I can't decide which I need more; a device that plays audio CDs and MP3 CDs as well as solid state storage MP3s, or, a phone/PDA combo that can replace an MP3 player as well, as long as the MP3 player doesn't tax the battery much more than the phone how.
I would like better more commonsense PDA functions in the phone such as Palm conduits to Lotus notes and the ability to sync to a web based public calendar. I'd also like a better phone book, one that allows better integration of email addresses.
And as a long time T9 user - back when it was used on Palmpilots as well, I have to say, that dog won't hunt anymore. It's too tedious to use effectively for text messaging and email. I think that Samsung and company are just going to have to bite the bullet on this one and provide a fold up keyboard tht connects to the obscure and seemingly useless data port on on VI660 phone in order for me to effectively use PCS vision services.
And I probably won't get a camera phone unless and until it's a better cheaper and more efficient replacement for a REAL digital camera. And at that, it has to plug directly into a photo printer and unload and print just like the cameras of today.
In five years I want to get rid of my laptop, PDA, phone, MP3 and CD player and use a single device that doesn't cost as much as a car, runs 2 full days on battery power and is 100% backup-able to some storage device on my homeLAN like a network NAS box.
It's time for a concerted effort to mass mail our files back to them. I thing 200GB per day for the next three years to the MPAA/RIAA and overpeer members and any and all named individuals in those organizations would be the minimum.
I would also like to see a concerted effort to indentify the personal email accounts and personal websites to bombard them with several hundred GB of files per day.
It's pure bullshit. The effects to the US from neglected to micromanage the companies themselves the way they believe they can micromanage their own customers to the edge of outright criminal behavior is the same. On what's the busiest travel day of the year the entire system comes to a screaching halt no different than the US declaring the grounding of all aircraft on 9-11. But hey, I got modded down by dumbass hillbilly redneck who thinks failure is a good idea.
Great news. Now that $8/hr mouth breathers get to treat everyone like a terrorist, it's good to know that infrastructure is incredibly fragile and built like shit so that the economic effects are more or less the same. Maybe we should apply some of that you're-a-terrorist mentality to the people who run the fucking airlines...?
Nah!~ let's just fuck with the customers.
All Hail Maximus Primate Bush!
Basically this is an attempt to get the rest of the country to build a city for the benefit of a few Texans who will then suck the profits out all the economic activity on it. This is practically the privatization of government itself.
George "Maximum Monkey" Bush meets P.K. Dick.
Part of the Strategic Arms reduction treaty, Russia is scheduled to remove all 308 R-36M MIRV systems from active service. These are hoisted by Dnepr boosters. Since 1999 the Russians have been looking for a commercial application for the Dnepr launch system. They've had a few failures and a few problems, but who hasn't? (ESA Ariane-5 for example).
So the Russians seem to have found a good use for the Dnepr system. But the remaining problem for them is that the Russians want to stop using Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakstan and start using Svobodny 18 in Far Eastern Siberia. Problem is that Svobodny 18 isn't built for the Dnepr.
This recent submarine earthquake occured when a ridge of the floor of Indian ocean a few HUNDRED miles long dropped 90 - 300 feet. A collapsing island even a large one could never generate that much power.
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/dnepr.html
Developed originally for the R36M ICBM/FO program scheduled for decommissioning 2007, the Dnepr is now looked at for commercial uses. Mixed bag of success. Economic problems persist.
A bigger problem will be where Russia phases out Baikonur in favor of their own launch site at Svobodny 18, which isn't built for Dnepr.
People don't really detect a perceivable performance boost for less than 25% more actual performace. And the perception of that 25% varies wildly from 'fneh' to 'wowieeeee'.
But I'm talking to a bunch of gamers for whom that last 0.4% performance boost is worth more than a hot cheerleader full of X.
Yes whatever. Windows code is as stable and reliable as a lightswitch. And we live on The Big Rock Candy Mountain too. I heard it from the Tooth Fairy.
Seriously, no one wants to be tech support at home for their own cranky television set. This is precisely what would happen with WMCE.
I can't just picture being interrupted mid movie to have my television set request permission to download a new codec, which requires a reboot and of course either makes no difference at all to me or doesn't work at all.
Better they should provide a $400 'helper station' a sort of cross between a docking station and something not even developed yet, a device with it's own CPU and RAM that fills out the iPOD's basic capability in order to make it real computer. That way for about $800 sans monitor you could have a fully functional machine that undocks to a iPod.
They weren't 'tempting fate'. neither were they fully aware of what it COULD do. It's very much the same as those poor slobs who refused to get off Mt. St. Helens. When something almost never occurs, when it does, people don't really become alarmed enough. This is why early warning might be a boondoggle. At supersonic speed, tsunamis only provide a few minutes of early warning anyway. It's not practical or an efficient use of resources to think that in 30 minutes you could clear a beach of 30,000 people while they are all walking TOWARD the water.
On Nov 13 1970 a typhoon driven storm surge killed 500,000 people in Bangladesh and in April 1991 another killed 140,000. While this is a bad event and a highly unsusal one it pales compared to that.
And I will add that reports in Sri Lanka are coming back that thousands of people flocked TO THE BEACH to watch the storm surge because it was so unusual. It's HIGHLY UNLIKELY that an early warning system would have saved very many people.
Nonsense, the Edwarian era Great Inventors were engineering better solutions to crude unworkable designs that already existed.