Get real. A single mineral or ore rich asteroid could be worth hundreds of millions. Of course, the impact here on earth to the economy might not be good (bring back a few hundred tons of gold... whoopsie).
And what about DLP? High resolution, no burn in issues, high contrast, vibrant color, light wieght and small footprint, although not small enough to hang on your wall. What more could you want? (Oh, and a $300 bulb every few years under average use, can't forget the negatives).
The shuttle's explosion was so significant in that there's only been one other to explode, 17 years ago. Launches are still quite rare, and non-existant currently. There have been less than 100 launches in 20 years. 1 in 50 and/or 1 every ten years is significant in the public consciousness.
Doesn't seem to affect bus companies, ships, nor airplances all that much when one of those explode. We haven't had a real period of exploration for more than 150 years.
This is a good reason that privately funded space travel needs to "explode". When space flight becomes less expensive, and companies can drive exploration as much as anyone else, then steps will truly be made in this realm. Waiting on NASA just isn't cutting it these days.
I'd have to agree with this regarding iTunes on windows. There's several things I don't like about iTunes.
The way it decides to reorganize your files (if you click that option to utilize a folder as its library)
The fact you cannot sort based on path names.
Hot Key control (although, on a MAC OS, there's supposed to be an add-on that allows for this)
Those are the 3 major irritants in order, as I see them. The reorganizing of the files is probably my fault for not reading the popup box carefully enough, but years of windows popups have pretty much inured me if the first 5 or 6 words don't warn me of dire consequences. #2 is a real issue for me. Though I like listening to my collection randomly, I occassionaly like to listen to an album in sequence. iTunes does not intuitively allow me to do that.
With all that said though, I'm looking at picking up an iBook as soon as an upgrade to Tiger comes with it, being how that's imminent.
Seriously, though, why not entice businesses with promotiing more work at home? Why go into the office at all every day? Many of us have no need for that, and would actually be more productive without being distracted in cubeville. (At least as far as/.'ers go)
The passing monoculture of browserdom will make it more difficult for browser based attacks to occur.
Not only that, but it makes it possible for more browsers to exist, as web programming will target known standards more and more, and hopefully life will be good.
At least that's the utopian view. I foresee another huge battle coming between XAML and XUL, along with a whole new vector of viral attacks.
Heck, I use a limited number of base rotating patterns. I just have to remember in what phase of the pattern I'm in, and everything just falls into place. Much easier than dealing with "memory enhanced" passwords, and other crap that tries to be totally unique every 4 months or less.
The benie? The patterns are truly random sets of characters, as they're not based on real words.
That's true. I'm not running RAID 5 on those, yet. Then again, for tasks such as ripping and editing movies, such a system is fine, although a SCSI system would be better. This is a secondary mass store system about to be put into use. I've not decided whether to go 4 striped for a bit better performance, or 4 disks running one expanded volume via one or another mechanism. (Same size, no performance gain, no major loss)
I'm betting the Blu-Ray will do well in the PC market only when Blu-Ray drives can produce whatever format everyone's players will be playing.
As an HD TV owner, I'd love to get a player that could truly exercise my TV, as the picture is already great with DVDs, but think how much better it would be in HD-DVD!
Actually, I just watched Spiderman 2 - same BS initially IIRC. I don't pay attention half the time.
The marketeers have succeeded in making me almost totally oblivious to commercials, so much so that sometimes I tune out of entire shows, when I bother to turn them on at all anymore.
At least, that was until I got a DVR, with which I can now reclaim 20 minutes of every hour of tv "watching". So, ironically enough, now I watch more tv, and am probably peppered with more advertising, although in more subtle ways such as product placement within shows.
You're a bit off the mark. The "bigger" hard drives are here already. I have 4 160GB drives striped for a nice 640 GB volume. Nice mass store device with some halfway decent performance. Cost? $400, including the PC with Gb ethernet they're in. Parts are darn cheap if you want to roll your own "SAN".
A little misleading. With RH, you get to upgrade for free. The price you're paying per year is for support. Take a look at Microsoft's support pricing. (That's different than "supporting" products for 5 years.)
I think his point was that the call to RH resulted in a person at the other end only working with a limited set of solutions, which his problem fell outside of. If you're paying for support, you should get support.
I too have wonderful stories of support issues with Microsoft, and know how "useful" they are. Bascially, we had a problem that was supposed to be "impossible" by Microsoft's tier 1, 2, and 3 support and by the actual spec they were implementing. Through ignorance or lack of attention to detail, however, we managed to implement one of their solutions in this "impossible" configuration. It took escalation of the situation all the way to the SVP in charge of that project to determine 1) That the problem was possible 2) we were screwed, there was no way to fix it other than a reinstall, which was impossible on an in-production system being used by 25000 users daily.
Anyways, I don't know how hard he tried to escalate his issue with RH, and there's the issue that 25,0000 user licenses carries much more weight than 3 (or 30). In truth, we were a pilot for a much much larger organization. So MS had a serious vested interest in assisting us to make their crap work. (Yes, I'm aware that 25,000 users is not a pilot to most... perhaps pilot is a slight understatement, however, the remainder of the business could have decided to go another direction;) Oh, many of the things we worked out in our "pilot" were later utilized by MS as best practices. Always nice to see your work used without credit.
Well said! We're either a global market, or we're not. It can't be get paid at global rates but have to pay at local rates, when local rates are higher. That's not sustainable.
I draw the line at people who send me unsolicited junk. Especially those who send me lots of unsolicited junk. If they don't want to be hit, don't send out "junk" mail. After all, junk mail is a request to visit their site, and it surely isn't sent out to a "select few", so consider this the many responding en masse, better rate of returns than they could ever have hoped for.:)
While the other things listed may be illegal in various countries, let those countries deal with whatever's illegal under their jurisdiction. That's not what this move by Lycos addresses.
Heck, the additions kept coming for years. The cool ones where Dieties and Demigods, and Fiend Folio. We didn't need stinking Player class additions, as we had the basics from Dragon magazine and our own additions....
Heck, we'd created our own brawler class extended from the same pummeling tables provided in the PH, among other things. Monk? Just our brawler class with some bonuses, really, and some tweaking to allow him to be hurt less. But, does anyone think in real life some karate etc is going to be succeessful against a well-trained enemy with a gun. It makes for good screenplay, but a well-trained person with a sword will almost always beat an unarmed opponent, no matter how well-trained.
Take a look at soldiers - they're well-trained, they shoot for the torso, basically the center of gravity, which is much easier to hit as it's much harder to move, and not just because it's bigger. So are police, come to think of it. Not too many headshots with either one, no matter how cool that is in HL or Doom.
I watched TOS way way back, when it was campy but still cool. Then TNG came out, the first season was ok, especially compoared to TOS, but not great. When they replaced Crusher for a season or two, that just about made me tune out for good. I actually missed the first show of the season where they brought her back.
Wesley was a horrorible addition. While it might appeal to the 12 year old, his prominence in several episodes made me tune in to something else when they came on. This comes from a confirmed hard-core sci-fi addict, at least in my younger years. Matter of fact, Wesley is much like the scenes that focus on young John Connor in T2, just about killed the movie despite the incredible special effects and overall storyline. His little monologue plea against killing people puts me in mind of Jar Jar's scenes: completely out of place. Another instance of kids not working out: Doogie Howser. I wonder why kids playing "adult" roles on TV just about universally fail?
To get back on topic, DS9 showed initial promise, quickly faded to the moronic, then probably made a come back with the huge Dominion war, but I missed most of that, having tuned out long ago. It looked cool, but someone needs to go through that series with a major double sided axe to get a "good" show out there. Stargate does a much better job with the base/excursion concept.
Voyager: Jerry Ryan's skin suit. Oh, yeah, there were those fluidic universe beings, and that was pretty cool. I also recall the sledgehammer of morals in almost every episode I saw. Major turn-off in a "new" show. Kinda cute for TOS, not so cute now.
Enterprise, started off sort of promising, started to fade, added the asinine theme song (gag, yick, puke, and still better than Clay Aiken) but I pretty much stopped within a couple of shows into the second season. The entire Xindi storyline came after, and looks promising enough for me to watch it on DVD. Why DVD? Because, like DS9, there's an entire swath of episodes that should have been culled to have made this a show worthy of the Trek series.
While that's fine and dandy for that particular scenario, the grandparent, as he details utilizes queueing for importance and priorities based on numerous criteria, including current work load. IM does not fit into the picture that way. However, IM might fit in from a helpdesk to customer path. The helpdesk would initiate it. I've found that telephone combined with IM or email to be quite helpful at times.
My personal experience with 4 different companies is that each one had a web based application for entereing tickets. Not a single one was automated to the point of email, as email didn't meet the requirements of being sorted into type of work, etc. At least the web apps with fixed categories gave limited room for error.
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Get real. A single mineral or ore rich asteroid could be worth hundreds of millions. Of course, the impact here on earth to the economy might not be good (bring back a few hundred tons of gold... whoopsie).
And what about DLP? High resolution, no burn in issues, high contrast, vibrant color, light wieght and small footprint, although not small enough to hang on your wall. What more could you want? (Oh, and a $300 bulb every few years under average use, can't forget the negatives).
The shuttle's explosion was so significant in that there's only been one other to explode, 17 years ago. Launches are still quite rare, and non-existant currently. There have been less than 100 launches in 20 years. 1 in 50 and/or 1 every ten years is significant in the public consciousness.
Doesn't seem to affect bus companies, ships, nor airplances all that much when one of those explode. We haven't had a real period of exploration for more than 150 years.
This is a good reason that privately funded space travel needs to "explode". When space flight becomes less expensive, and companies can drive exploration as much as anyone else, then steps will truly be made in this realm. Waiting on NASA just isn't cutting it these days.
- The way it decides to reorganize your files (if you click that option to utilize a folder as its library)
- The fact you cannot sort based on path names.
- Hot Key control (although, on a MAC OS, there's supposed to be an add-on that allows for this)
Those are the 3 major irritants in order, as I see them. The reorganizing of the files is probably my fault for not reading the popup box carefully enough, but years of windows popups have pretty much inured me if the first 5 or 6 words don't warn me of dire consequences. #2 is a real issue for me. Though I like listening to my collection randomly, I occassionaly like to listen to an album in sequence. iTunes does not intuitively allow me to do that.With all that said though, I'm looking at picking up an iBook as soon as an upgrade to Tiger comes with it, being how that's imminent.
Heck, it works for the Europeans.
/.'ers go)
Seriously, though, why not entice businesses with promotiing more work at home? Why go into the office at all every day? Many of us have no need for that, and would actually be more productive without being distracted in cubeville. (At least as far as
The passing monoculture of browserdom will make it more difficult for browser based attacks to occur.
Not only that, but it makes it possible for more browsers to exist, as web programming will target known standards more and more, and hopefully life will be good.
At least that's the utopian view. I foresee another huge battle coming between XAML and XUL, along with a whole new vector of viral attacks.
Heck, I use a limited number of base rotating patterns. I just have to remember in what phase of the pattern I'm in, and everything just falls into place. Much easier than dealing with "memory enhanced" passwords, and other crap that tries to be totally unique every 4 months or less.
The benie? The patterns are truly random sets of characters, as they're not based on real words.
That's true. I'm not running RAID 5 on those, yet. Then again, for tasks such as ripping and editing movies, such a system is fine, although a SCSI system would be better. This is a secondary mass store system about to be put into use. I've not decided whether to go 4 striped for a bit better performance, or 4 disks running one expanded volume via one or another mechanism. (Same size, no performance gain, no major loss)
That's why I'm glad to be Scottish. Who else would think of the deep fried mars bar / deep fried pizza?
Americans? (Fried Twinkies, Fried applies, Fried <insert whatever you can think of here>
I'm betting the Blu-Ray will do well in the PC market only when Blu-Ray drives can produce whatever format everyone's players will be playing.
As an HD TV owner, I'd love to get a player that could truly exercise my TV, as the picture is already great with DVDs, but think how much better it would be in HD-DVD!
Actually, I just watched Spiderman 2 - same BS initially IIRC. I don't pay attention half the time.
The marketeers have succeeded in making me almost totally oblivious to commercials, so much so that sometimes I tune out of entire shows, when I bother to turn them on at all anymore.
At least, that was until I got a DVR, with which I can now reclaim 20 minutes of every hour of tv "watching". So, ironically enough, now I watch more tv, and am probably peppered with more advertising, although in more subtle ways such as product placement within shows.
Dam, they still win....
You're a bit off the mark. The "bigger" hard drives are here already. I have 4 160GB drives striped for a nice 640 GB volume. Nice mass store device with some halfway decent performance. Cost? $400, including the PC with Gb ethernet they're in. Parts are darn cheap if you want to roll your own "SAN".
A little misleading. With RH, you get to upgrade for free. The price you're paying per year is for support. Take a look at Microsoft's support pricing. (That's different than "supporting" products for 5 years.)
I think his point was that the call to RH resulted in a person at the other end only working with a limited set of solutions, which his problem fell outside of. If you're paying for support, you should get support.
;) Oh, many of the things we worked out in our "pilot" were later utilized by MS as best practices. Always nice to see your work used without credit.
I too have wonderful stories of support issues with Microsoft, and know how "useful" they are. Bascially, we had a problem that was supposed to be "impossible" by Microsoft's tier 1, 2, and 3 support and by the actual spec they were implementing. Through ignorance or lack of attention to detail, however, we managed to implement one of their solutions in this "impossible" configuration. It took escalation of the situation all the way to the SVP in charge of that project to determine
1) That the problem was possible
2) we were screwed, there was no way to fix it other than a reinstall, which was impossible on an in-production system being used by 25000 users daily.
Anyways, I don't know how hard he tried to escalate his issue with RH, and there's the issue that 25,0000 user licenses carries much more weight than 3 (or 30). In truth, we were a pilot for a much much larger organization. So MS had a serious vested interest in assisting us to make their crap work. (Yes, I'm aware that 25,000 users is not a pilot to most... perhaps pilot is a slight understatement, however, the remainder of the business could have decided to go another direction
#1) Buy a real slide scanner. Nothing beats true optical 4000 dpi. Here are cheaper ones.
#2) Might want to get a Mac. Windows isn't great on photos, although it's my current platform. I'm looking into the Mac myself....
Well said! We're either a global market, or we're not. It can't be get paid at global rates but have to pay at local rates, when local rates are higher. That's not sustainable.
I draw the line at people who send me unsolicited junk. Especially those who send me lots of unsolicited junk. If they don't want to be hit, don't send out "junk" mail. After all, junk mail is a request to visit their site, and it surely isn't sent out to a "select few", so consider this the many responding en masse, better rate of returns than they could ever have hoped for. :)
While the other things listed may be illegal in various countries, let those countries deal with whatever's illegal under their jurisdiction. That's not what this move by Lycos addresses.
Heck, the additions kept coming for years. The cool ones where Dieties and Demigods, and Fiend Folio. We didn't need stinking Player class additions, as we had the basics from Dragon magazine and our own additions....
Heck, we'd created our own brawler class extended from the same pummeling tables provided in the PH, among other things. Monk? Just our brawler class with some bonuses, really, and some tweaking to allow him to be hurt less. But, does anyone think in real life some karate etc is going to be succeessful against a well-trained enemy with a gun. It makes for good screenplay, but a well-trained person with a sword will almost always beat an unarmed opponent, no matter how well-trained.
Take a look at soldiers - they're well-trained, they shoot for the torso, basically the center of gravity, which is much easier to hit as it's much harder to move, and not just because it's bigger. So are police, come to think of it. Not too many headshots with either one, no matter how cool that is in HL or Doom.
I watched TOS way way back, when it was campy but still cool. Then TNG came out, the first season was ok, especially compoared to TOS, but not great. When they replaced Crusher for a season or two, that just about made me tune out for good. I actually missed the first show of the season where they brought her back.
Wesley was a horrorible addition. While it might appeal to the 12 year old, his prominence in several episodes made me tune in to something else when they came on. This comes from a confirmed hard-core sci-fi addict, at least in my younger years. Matter of fact, Wesley is much like the scenes that focus on young John Connor in T2, just about killed the movie despite the incredible special effects and overall storyline. His little monologue plea against killing people puts me in mind of Jar Jar's scenes: completely out of place. Another instance of kids not working out: Doogie Howser. I wonder why kids playing "adult" roles on TV just about universally fail?
To get back on topic, DS9 showed initial promise, quickly faded to the moronic, then probably made a come back with the huge Dominion war, but I missed most of that, having tuned out long ago. It looked cool, but someone needs to go through that series with a major double sided axe to get a "good" show out there. Stargate does a much better job with the base/excursion concept.
Voyager: Jerry Ryan's skin suit. Oh, yeah, there were those fluidic universe beings, and that was pretty cool. I also recall the sledgehammer of morals in almost every episode I saw. Major turn-off in a "new" show. Kinda cute for TOS, not so cute now.
Enterprise, started off sort of promising, started to fade, added the asinine theme song (gag, yick, puke, and still better than Clay Aiken) but I pretty much stopped within a couple of shows into the second season. The entire Xindi storyline came after, and looks promising enough for me to watch it on DVD. Why DVD? Because, like DS9, there's an entire swath of episodes that should have been culled to have made this a show worthy of the Trek series.
While that's fine and dandy for that particular scenario, the grandparent, as he details utilizes queueing for importance and priorities based on numerous criteria, including current work load. IM does not fit into the picture that way. However, IM might fit in from a helpdesk to customer path. The helpdesk would initiate it. I've found that telephone combined with IM or email to be quite helpful at times.
My personal experience with 4 different companies is that each one had a web based application for entereing tickets. Not a single one was automated to the point of email, as email didn't meet the requirements of being sorted into type of work, etc. At least the web apps with fixed categories gave limited room for error.
You might want to check dates. The original 2e came out in 89. No web then.
Actually, I'm running 1.4.2_06, and it still lists me as running an older version. Because I am, there's 1.5 (5.0) available now.