um no. with the old meters you can't jack up someone's power bill without shattering the glass globe which surrounds it. and you can't use a laptop to shut off their power. you have to physically cut the cables which leaves marks.
So it isn't the same situation. breaking a physical lock leaves traces. using a laptop to hack the meter and kill power to each house. doesn't leave a lot of marks that can be traced.
Yes they can. If you encode a movie and redistribute said movie you have to pay a fee for it. that includes every home user. you have a digital camera you upload that content onto the net you have redistributed their codec and are required to pay a licensing fee.
ALL redistribution of ANY H.264 encoded video on through ANY method requires one to Pay FEES. You host HTML5 video encoded H.264 video on your own website. you had better be ready to fork over money to MPEG-la when they start sending out bills. the MPEG group is getting ready to sue everyone who hasn't bought their licensing.
how the they both be equal when MPEG-LA has already announced that they will seek all users, (end users, software distributors, and hardware people ) will each required to buy a license to view H.264 The current free period ends in 2016.
That sounds like a patent threat all buy itself.
that is how I took their announcement that they were extending their free licensing.
I have to have four different intalled versions of.net installed on my work computers because.net is a piece of shit. One version of javacan handle backwards compatibilty. However.net programers lock their apps to one specific version and thus you become requried to have installed every version of every.net library just to maintain compatibilty.
I have heard of that happening the java occasionally. With.net it is standard
OCR isn't bad, however I have yet to find a viable voice recognition software. it either does okay but then things like sneezes and coughs duplicate random words, or it doesn't work at all as it is too sensitive and one person with a sore throat doesn't sound enough like themselves healthy to work.
I laugh every-time i see someone pick up their phone and say one name into it 4-5 times and think how cool it works.
I have two different lens each with a different prescription. that is pretty standard. unless they are wearing 3D glasses with each eye receiving it's own version of the text it is useless, and to do that you need special glasses that won't work for anything else.
there is no potential as I have a lazy eye, one eye is always pointing in the wrong direction if you look at it, however for me i see straight ahead, So even if I calibrated a device for me, someone else using my laptop would have to spend five minutes adjusting the settings to even look over my shoulder.
Yet another product that will fail. I am cross eyed no surgery will ever be able to straighten my eyes out enough for a computer to track corectly. Let alone what happens if you wear glasses. The refraction or in some cases polarized lens and bifocals will throw such setups into disarray.
What hapens if more than one person is looking at the screen? I forgot who but some one recently made camera with motion sensing that couldn't detect black people in less than perfect lighting. What happens if some is wearing a colored contact lens? Will that throw the system off?
These lab tests always seem to fail in the real world.
Two of us do similar jobs, One prints out a copy and files everything. they are his own records, and he keeps tabs on them over, such a time frame and dumps them after 6-9 months(only a certian percentage is useful after that point.
the there is me, we both work with pdf's, excel, and our own system's quotes, however I just dump everything into my email client and file it there. I have a folder on the network drive that I store everything that isn't in email. My paper components consist of a couple of spiral notebooks, and anything that I haven't yet converted over or finished.
However in order for me to be efficient I do need at least two if not three monitors. I am hoping to convince them to buy me a displaylink adaptor so I can use at least a second monitor. that way is the easy upgrade path, since I don't use visually intensive work.
possible but SCO wouldn't be free as the issue would have to be dealt with first, and IBM still has SCO in it's cross hairs.
actually once SCO is decided Novell could suddenly be worth more.well unix assets as valued by SCO are only worth about 1 million that could change if clear ownership is shown.
iPhoneOS is a touch interface. mice, and keyboards are done by touch. The interface is controlled through gestures. upscaling it to a bigger screen is no different than the ipod touch.
Funny I don't remember a single gesture based touch phone or tablet before the iphone. Sure there was touch screen devices but none had an interface designed for touch, but it was an treated as an after market add on , not integral component not a key piece of tech. The fact that so many of them also have keyboards shows how much thought they put into touch.
As for flash, it current uses 80% of two of my cores on my intel Core 2 dou. Because flash is controlled by adobe and adobe doesn't care about any non msft software. So running Linux, or OS X means flash draws three times the power, and drastically shortens battery life of my laptop. flash 10.1 so far isn't an improvement. Adobe has rigged flash to MSFT only products for any kind of decent performance.
a mouse isn't a keyboard. A mouse isn't a touch based sensor either.
when working with a mouse, you will not use it in the same manner as you would use a touch input. things like drag and draw respond very differently with a finger as opposed to a mouse and button press.
Apple understands this. MSFT partially does just no one in charge. There are many types of GUI. one for keyboards one for mice, and one that is yet to be fully embraced for touch based systems.
Windows is not and never has been a tablet OS. a Tablet isn't a desktop, you can't use the two in the same fashion. the pointers are different(fingers/stylus, vs a mouse pointer) You can't just graph touch inputs into a desktop GUI, and expect everything to work right. MSFT has made one decent touch based app, That is why tablets have thus failed. Everyone tries to treat them as notebooks with touch screens, not as tablets with their own gui designs.
Apple with their sometimes annoying closed systems, are breaking MSFT out of their bad habits. It took 3-4 years but MSFT fianlly realized that putting a desktop Interface on their phones was a bad idea that limited usability. With the Ipad maybe in 5 years MSFT will make a real windows tablet OS, that ditches a wide bar that eats up valuable real estate and come up with a new way to work with tablets. I would say linux might get their first, but Linux devs while innovative seem to have no luck in advertising to manufacturers.
typing this on my mac, with my Iphone nearby i will say i won't get an ipad, my purpose of a small tablet will be primarily for browsing and unfortunately that will require flash. though someone finally taking a stand against flash is refreshing.
I don't. we mail multi page PDF's and excell sheets back and forth where I work. Having to log into a separate website and download pdf's 10-50 times a day would be more annoying.
What is needed is for email to move into the 21st century. redesigned to handle all the things that it is asked to do.
Your thinking wrong. The American populous will only put up with so much crap, high prices, lack of resources, until it is will to do what it takes. That's just it in the free market. when it has expanded to the point it can't anymore it will collapse, however that collapse is the trigger for it's next growth.
Because the economy is mostly free, it can shift and bounce. Sometimes they hurt, however in the long run it is far more flexible and only breaks in certain situations and only long enough to replace what was broken.
truth? the last full region to be exploited will be the USA. The USA has all the materials needed for a high tech society sitting in the ground. American capitalism is doing the smart thing. Using up everyone else's resources first, and then between our landfills, and other large quantities of resources we will literally own the rest of the world.
PA is still loading with steel even though none of it is mined any more. it is recycled and imported. When push comes to shove the USA has more resources than it needs for the next couple of centuries.
then with windows vista why didn't MSFT include an XP mode, than ran in it's own self contained section while using the higher security of a modern OS?
MSFT is trying to maintain compatibly with single user OS's in a networked world and failing miserably. Apple simply included a backwards compatibility mode and with every release slowly stopped installing.
$50 one time cost my ass. I can't get that setup at work because Cisco has screwed up the settings three times and they charge Every time it goes back even if they were the ones who fscked up the settings. So I can't get wireless as it has cost our company some $300 more than what it should have the first time around. because you know who pays for shipping both ways?
Security that costs time and money once to implement is tough to get through, when you have to do it three more times because cisco is staffed by morons things get a lot more complicated.
The average commute in Rochester NY is 20 minutes for 750 thousand people. Mine is 15 minutes without snow. I work inside city limits, and live in a relative country setting. Once you get outside the major cities commutes fall pretty quickly.
well since I have used three different android models each with variations in UI, and abilities you can never know what your going to get with a android. Some sucked, others were okay, None of them made me happy to use my phone. None of them used the same way to work with apps.
There needs to be one version of andriod with a consistent hard specs or it will end up like windows mobile. used by feature geeks, and hated by everyone else.
Which enemy? while russia and china may have access to certain specifications North Korea doesn't. should we give them the plans just because Russia has them?
If you fail to see how various troop deployments over a three month or even a 5 year period provide tactical advantage then i suggest you shut the fsck up. It means you don't have a clue on how to defend troops, or any kind of tactical knowledge period. It means to put it in terms of Mel Brooks you Flunked Flank. Sun Tzu would call you ignorant and say you have already lost.
I was trying to give you the benefit of doubt, as I believe the government does need to open up, however battles are won and lost by deception and firepower. if you release troop deployments for a given area every three months then the enemy knows what kind of rotations your using, which troops have been deployed longest(thus making them more prone to failure), Your enemy can see the patterns where you are most likely weak. The USA doesn't have the troops to defend everything it has to all at once. The trick is to not let those who would do us harm know where our troops are only partially deployed and where they are fully deployed.
You make an assumption the military is perfectly capable of hiding decades worth of tactical information in weeks. While Congress needs to open up, for the lives of our troops the military only should answer to elected officials. That is why we elected them.
how do you separate US(the citizens of the United States) from Russia, China, north Korea and Iran?
We can't have the secrets as it only takes one person to tell others, who will blab to non citizens, who tell their bosses. While the US government keeps more secrets than it should, there is a good reason for only telling representatives(say elected) by you those secrets.
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um no. with the old meters you can't jack up someone's power bill without shattering the glass globe which surrounds it. and you can't use a laptop to shut off their power. you have to physically cut the cables which leaves marks.
So it isn't the same situation. breaking a physical lock leaves traces. using a laptop to hack the meter and kill power to each house. doesn't leave a lot of marks that can be traced.
Yes they can. If you encode a movie and redistribute said movie you have to pay a fee for it. that includes every home user. you have a digital camera you upload that content onto the net you have redistributed their codec and are required to pay a licensing fee.
ALL redistribution of ANY H.264 encoded video on through ANY method requires one to Pay FEES. You host HTML5 video encoded H.264 video on your own website. you had better be ready to fork over money to MPEG-la when they start sending out bills. the MPEG group is getting ready to sue everyone who hasn't bought their licensing.
how the they both be equal when MPEG-LA has already announced that they will seek all users, (end users, software distributors, and hardware people ) will each required to buy a license to view H.264 The current free period ends in 2016.
That sounds like a patent threat all buy itself.
that is how I took their announcement that they were extending their free licensing.
but your fine with gigadyke teradyke, and petadyke?
hmmm the last one could be fun.
I have to have four different intalled versions of .net installed on my work computers because .net is a piece of shit. One version of javacan handle backwards compatibilty. However .net programers lock their apps to one specific version and thus you become requried to have installed every version of every .net library just to maintain compatibilty.
I have heard of that happening the java occasionally. With .net it is standard
no but you could call it the tallest tower. after all there aren't any people above them.
OCR isn't bad, however I have yet to find a viable voice recognition software. it either does okay but then things like sneezes and coughs duplicate random words, or it doesn't work at all as it is too sensitive and one person with a sore throat doesn't sound enough like themselves healthy to work.
I laugh every-time i see someone pick up their phone and say one name into it 4-5 times and think how cool it works.
I have two different lens each with a different prescription. that is pretty standard. unless they are wearing 3D glasses with each eye receiving it's own version of the text it is useless, and to do that you need special glasses that won't work for anything else.
there is no potential as I have a lazy eye, one eye is always pointing in the wrong direction if you look at it, however for me i see straight ahead, So even if I calibrated a device for me, someone else using my laptop would have to spend five minutes adjusting the settings to even look over my shoulder.
Yet another product that will fail. I am cross eyed no surgery will ever be able to straighten my eyes out enough for a computer to track corectly. Let alone what happens if you wear glasses. The refraction or in some cases polarized lens and bifocals will throw such setups into disarray.
What hapens if more than one person is looking at the screen? I forgot who but some one recently made camera with motion sensing that couldn't detect black people in less than perfect lighting. What happens if some is wearing a colored contact lens? Will that throw the system off?
These lab tests always seem to fail in the real world.
personally I would rather have a good lens system and a 20 megapixel sensor.
In my office it varies.
Two of us do similar jobs, One prints out a copy and files everything. they are his own records, and he keeps tabs on them over, such a time frame and dumps them after 6-9 months(only a certian percentage is useful after that point.
the there is me, we both work with pdf's, excel, and our own system's quotes, however I just dump everything into my email client and file it there. I have a folder on the network drive that I store everything that isn't in email. My paper components consist of a couple of spiral notebooks, and anything that I haven't yet converted over or finished.
However in order for me to be efficient I do need at least two if not three monitors. I am hoping to convince them to buy me a displaylink adaptor so I can use at least a second monitor. that way is the easy upgrade path, since I don't use visually intensive work.
possible but SCO wouldn't be free as the issue would have to be dealt with first, and IBM still has SCO in it's cross hairs.
actually once SCO is decided Novell could suddenly be worth more.well unix assets as valued by SCO are only worth about 1 million that could change if clear ownership is shown.
iPhoneOS is a touch interface. mice, and keyboards are done by touch. The interface is controlled through gestures. upscaling it to a bigger screen is no different than the ipod touch.
Funny I don't remember a single gesture based touch phone or tablet before the iphone. Sure there was touch screen devices but none had an interface designed for touch, but it was an treated as an after market add on , not integral component not a key piece of tech. The fact that so many of them also have keyboards shows how much thought they put into touch.
As for flash, it current uses 80% of two of my cores on my intel Core 2 dou. Because flash is controlled by adobe and adobe doesn't care about any non msft software. So running Linux, or OS X means flash draws three times the power, and drastically shortens battery life of my laptop. flash 10.1 so far isn't an improvement. Adobe has rigged flash to MSFT only products for any kind of decent performance.
a mouse isn't a keyboard. A mouse isn't a touch based sensor either.
when working with a mouse, you will not use it in the same manner as you would use a touch input. things like drag and draw respond very differently with a finger as opposed to a mouse and button press.
Apple understands this. MSFT partially does just no one in charge. There are many types of GUI. one for keyboards one for mice, and one that is yet to be fully embraced for touch based systems.
Windows is not and never has been a tablet OS. a Tablet isn't a desktop, you can't use the two in the same fashion. the pointers are different(fingers/stylus, vs a mouse pointer) You can't just graph touch inputs into a desktop GUI, and expect everything to work right. MSFT has made one decent touch based app, That is why tablets have thus failed. Everyone tries to treat them as notebooks with touch screens, not as tablets with their own gui designs.
Apple with their sometimes annoying closed systems, are breaking MSFT out of their bad habits. It took 3-4 years but MSFT fianlly realized that putting a desktop Interface on their phones was a bad idea that limited usability. With the Ipad maybe in 5 years MSFT will make a real windows tablet OS, that ditches a wide bar that eats up valuable real estate and come up with a new way to work with tablets. I would say linux might get their first, but Linux devs while innovative seem to have no luck in advertising to manufacturers.
typing this on my mac, with my Iphone nearby i will say i won't get an ipad, my purpose of a small tablet will be primarily for browsing and unfortunately that will require flash. though someone finally taking a stand against flash is refreshing.
I don't. we mail multi page PDF's and excell sheets back and forth where I work. Having to log into a separate website and download pdf's 10-50 times a day would be more annoying.
What is needed is for email to move into the 21st century. redesigned to handle all the things that it is asked to do.
it would turn every trader into a day trader.
of course the majority already are.
Your thinking wrong. The American populous will only put up with so much crap, high prices, lack of resources, until it is will to do what it takes. That's just it in the free market. when it has expanded to the point it can't anymore it will collapse, however that collapse is the trigger for it's next growth.
Because the economy is mostly free, it can shift and bounce. Sometimes they hurt, however in the long run it is far more flexible and only breaks in certain situations and only long enough to replace what was broken.
truth? the last full region to be exploited will be the USA. The USA has all the materials needed for a high tech society sitting in the ground. American capitalism is doing the smart thing. Using up everyone else's resources first, and then between our landfills, and other large quantities of resources we will literally own the rest of the world.
PA is still loading with steel even though none of it is mined any more. it is recycled and imported. When push comes to shove the USA has more resources than it needs for the next couple of centuries.
then with windows vista why didn't MSFT include an XP mode, than ran in it's own self contained section while using the higher security of a modern OS?
MSFT is trying to maintain compatibly with single user OS's in a networked world and failing miserably. Apple simply included a backwards compatibility mode and with every release slowly stopped installing.
$50 one time cost my ass. I can't get that setup at work because Cisco has screwed up the settings three times and they charge Every time it goes back even if they were the ones who fscked up the settings. So I can't get wireless as it has cost our company some $300 more than what it should have the first time around. because you know who pays for shipping both ways?
Security that costs time and money once to implement is tough to get through, when you have to do it three more times because cisco is staffed by morons things get a lot more complicated.
The average commute in Rochester NY is 20 minutes for 750 thousand people. Mine is 15 minutes without snow. I work inside city limits, and live in a relative country setting. Once you get outside the major cities commutes fall pretty quickly.
well since I have used three different android models each with variations in UI, and abilities you can never know what your going to get with a android. Some sucked, others were okay, None of them made me happy to use my phone. None of them used the same way to work with apps.
There needs to be one version of andriod with a consistent hard specs or it will end up like windows mobile. used by feature geeks, and hated by everyone else.
Which enemy? while russia and china may have access to certain specifications North Korea doesn't. should we give them the plans just because Russia has them?
If you fail to see how various troop deployments over a three month or even a 5 year period provide tactical advantage then i suggest you shut the fsck up. It means you don't have a clue on how to defend troops, or any kind of tactical knowledge period. It means to put it in terms of Mel Brooks you Flunked Flank. Sun Tzu would call you ignorant and say you have already lost.
I was trying to give you the benefit of doubt, as I believe the government does need to open up, however battles are won and lost by deception and firepower. if you release troop deployments for a given area every three months then the enemy knows what kind of rotations your using, which troops have been deployed longest(thus making them more prone to failure), Your enemy can see the patterns where you are most likely weak. The USA doesn't have the troops to defend everything it has to all at once. The trick is to not let those who would do us harm know where our troops are only partially deployed and where they are fully deployed.
You make an assumption the military is perfectly capable of hiding decades worth of tactical information in weeks. While Congress needs to open up, for the lives of our troops the military only should answer to elected officials. That is why we elected them.
how do you separate US(the citizens of the United States) from Russia, China, north Korea and Iran?
We can't have the secrets as it only takes one person to tell others, who will blab to non citizens, who tell their bosses. While the US government keeps more secrets than it should, there is a good reason for only telling representatives(say elected) by you those secrets.