I had a cellular phone relatively early, back in the days of 1993. It was a Sony. I stopped using it, and using cellphones all together after i started getting headaches after talking on them. Most worrisome to me was that the phone got uncomfortably hot when I talked on it for any significant time, and then afterwards I'd start feeling that heat in my brain, sorta the side I was the using the phone just deeper my ear, almost an inch or two inside. I concluded I could do without that considerable amount of radiation and I was unwilling to go through the Tobacco-industry-versus-consumers over-whether-smoking-is-bad-for-you several-decades-debate-before-the-corporate-spin-r uns-out-of-tricks, so i hardly ever use a cellphone now although i own one, except for receiving calls, which if i'm close to a landline i quickly let people know i'd call them back or call them later. Other situations I used cellphones were I'd have something wrong with the car on a motorway, or mostly, as a voicemail device.
That said though, the idea of something exploding in my pants is even more unwelcome. I assure you the contents of my pants might even be more sensitive than my head. I never understood people who were comfortable carrying their cellphones in their pants. Testicles are very sensitive to radiation and there is only a layer of skin covering them. I almost never carried my cellphone in my pocket. Recently i stopped using a laptop in my lap too, preferring to use it on a desk, or using some hard thick material such as a folder between me and it. Testicles are too precious.
The open source mindset isn't academic; it's far from that. The academic mindset is even more disciplined than the business mindset. There are many occasions and examples why many things are abandoned by academia to only thrive in a business setting. I'd say business is more deregulated than academia is, and open source is even more deregulated than business.
I say this as someone who stayed in academia for 8 years and then left it due to the restrictive environment; believe me, business is more deregulated than academia.
i like all those things you mentioned about mozilla; i can no longer surf the web without multizilla, optimoz mouse gestures, bookmarks' keywords which i've customized so all i have to do to search google is type something like "gg keyword" or google groups "gr keyword"... etc
On seeing the icons in this story it's remarkable that the IE logo still looks good after all those years. I guess it's a testiment to the enduring beauty of simplicity. It's partly the reason i don't like KDE, which has often been keen to endorse "Trendy" stuff like glassball icons and aquafied look.
It's more important to be a successful entrepreneur than a successful technician or technologist. The same probably applies in other fields of industry or services.
I think it's time those involved with education start giving as much or even more attention to entrepreneurial, economic, or financial literacy than they currently do to technology, computing or information literacy.
I agree with that... i have at times got replies and emails regarding usenet posts i made from open source celebrities and sometimes, remembering a name, i only find out later who ther person is or how important he is when i see him quoted or mentioned in some historical account in some article online. And i think... "whoaaa!!"
I don't fully understand why people are being so critical of TV. It doesn't rot brains, but if you sit down for hours upon hours per day or per week with no specific plan for something better to do then that would be a problem, the TV is just a tool.
That said, like is not all about tasking. If you want a balanced life then a third of your time ought to go into productive, task-based activities, a third into fun, non-task oriented, recreational and refreshing, guilt-free play activities, and a third for your sleep. I, personally, often find TV useful as an entertainment medium. That said though, I'd totally agree that 80-90% of the material on TV is not suitable for my taste and sensibilities. But those that are, i am very selective with. My main interests are news, documentaries and arthouse movies. I almost never care about other things. And for me, often watching a documentary about someone or something, especially if it's a good documentary, is either useful or entertaining.
The beauty of television is that it's a convenient, up-to-date and instant medium. An picture is worth a thousand words, they said, and I'm sure a motion picture such as a video clip is worth even more. There are many books that are useful, and there are many individuals whose company is likely bad for you. It's just about selectiveness.
All you have to do is sort your search descendingly according to the number of sources; the more sources a movie or whatever has, the more likely it is to be good quality 'cos most people only keep good copies and delete corrupted ones.
Don't mind those people... they're totally unrealistic. Comparing an online university to Harvard or Ivy league ones is ridiculous, 'cos most people can't get into these anyway.
I don't know about UoPhoenix or DeVry, but what i know is that the MBA from The Open University in England has a very good reputation, and it's a correspondence school. I am not sure about their other courses but i know they have a long long history of corresponce degrees and are generally respected.
That said, however, I'd suggest you stay in your school unless it's a totally crappy one 'cos you don't wanna risk perceptions, and perceptions matter in the real world even if they're false. I think the general perception is that if all things are equal, an attended education is better than a correspondence/online one. Where an online degree comes in as good is when it's an extra one. Such as someone i heard about from an academic who did a PhD in engineering while he did an MBA by correspondence from the open university. Or for example if you're working, then doing a correspondence degree that is a plus.
Now, if your going to complain about the "lack of software" for doing AV work on a mac, I'm honestly going to have to ask what drugs you've done today: that's pretty much been their main market since time began.
When they started was different. I still recall mac in the 1980s and early 1990s and yes, back then it was superior third-party-software-wise, in quality rather than quantity at least. There's more third-party AV work software on windows now than on the mac, and it's better quality too if you're willing to pay for the professional prices. Now software comes out sooner on windows and it takes ages on the mac, if it ever comes out. I had a mac recently; i abandoned it due to lack of third-party software, i know what i'm talking about.
My friend has an ibook and often i have to struggle with her to find a software tool for the mac to do something for which there's almost certainly an abundance of windows tools somewhere on the net that'll do it automatically. Ironically even linux often had more options and essential software than the mac; i usually get her to download a linux tool that's been ported to os x. It's nice to have so much processing power but unless there's plenty of software the mac will be limited to running a specific function such as movie editing or photoshop, for which again there's more on the windows and what makes it even worse is that recently software makers, such as adobe, have been abandoning the mac; it just won't be a good machine for general desktop use, there aren't even many mac games. This is really such a niche machine.
If i had such a machine i'd install linux. But again, i'd rather have one that'll run both linux and windows. It seems unnecessary to abandon all the desktop apps in the wintel world.
A good and comfortable pen for me is an absolute necessity, not a nice thing; I have RSI yet have to write a lot, and if I use an ordinary pen my wrist starts hurting within a couple of minutes, sometimes almost instantly. So this summer i spent a lot of time and money researching and testing pens; trust me, my wrist is a highly sensitive testing tool for pens, and here are my findings.
The best and most comfortable pens by far of the many many i tested were the Stabilo 's move family, of which i have only used the powerball and i'm extremely satisfied with it, it has a curved shape, an extremely comfortable grip, and it writes like a dream with an amazingly smooth tip and ink, it's also refillable; here are pages about them, first, second, third.
A comfortable pencil is Pentech softech LX. An alternative is a sheaffer delta grip. The sheaffer delta grip ballpoint pen is comfortable too and there are Pentech seoftech ballpoints too, but i prefer the stabilo 's move powerball.
If you need highlighters then i would recommend either stabilo luminator or stabilo boss original. Some Bic highlighters are also good.
Some i have tested and might be worthy of mention, though the above are better are Dr. Grip pens. Also worthy of mention though i have not tried this one is the Cross morph, though i have read an ergonomic review that said the pentech softech was more comfortable than the cross morph, so i'll just stay with the stabilo 's move.
I have not found other pens that were better than those in terms of comfort; my wrist tells me very quickly if a pen is even slightly uncomfortable. Expensive pens aren't necessarily comfortable, mont blanc and lamy were more about style than comfort, in my experience. I also wouldn't recommend the pilot precise v5, i remember using it in the 1980s, i have tried it recently, comfortwise it's very poor.
patenting something like this is outrageous.
medical practice is full of situations where one drug proves useful for diseases other than that it wasn't designed for. Viagra for example was initially a cardiovascular drug that just happened to have the side effect of inducing erections, so it was remarketed for that. Aspirin was a painkiller that was discovered to thin the blood and prevent heart attacks so the majority of seniors take it now. Gee, there are endless examples... Chlorpromazine was a sedative agent that was found to reduce hallucinations in people with schizophrenia, imipramine was a cardiovascular drug that was found to make depressed people feel better, gee... i could go on and on...
the whole thing is about online piracy... it used to be the case that movies took as long as half a year or almost a year for them to premiere in europe after they've been on and gone in the US.
i never knew that the 2Kw little fan heater i have would cost so much if those numbers were used. Had my fan heater been powered by solar energy it would've cost what...? $4 per watt? what about 2Kw? gee even $0.20 sounds like much
is the 2Kw on the fan heater per hour or per minute or second or what?
There should be some law or penalty against meaningless lawsuits. There should be some law or penalty against predatory lawyers. There should be some law or regulation to give the profession of law some credibility.
The threat won't come from Microsoft, though they have money, intention and technologies they just don't have the credibility and trustworthiness. It won't be overture, they're clearly not into that mindset. It won't be IBM, at least not directly.
It will start, first of all, with Google's IPO.
The future as i see it will be the commoditization of web searching through distributed/grid computing and resource-sharing, and distributed/p2p-based open source search systems. It will be fueled by dissatisfaction with Google as a commercial entity. It will be helped by globalization, anti-american sentiment worldwide and nations wanting to handle their own informational destiny. And it'll be facitilitated by enhanced always-on broadband (many residential places already offer 54mbps) and cheap storage (a 320gb hard-drive is already on my shopping list for this month, for my personal use).
I don't see a reason other than time and technology why p2p won't evolve to handle websearching, I'm sure soon someone will figure out a way to harness the network and introduce the paradigm shift that napster did in the late nineties, i still remember what it was like before napster, maybe some form of implicit anonymous rating or whatever. At least then, when i search for a chinese restaurant, i'm likely to get an answer that is in my neighbourhood.
It won't be all that interesting because by the time that happens almost everyone else wuld be doing it and at least expecting it; they'll almost definintely have reasons to complain and wish for more. Back in the days of dialup we dreamt about broadband for a while, and now that it's almost everywhere, and that i have a half-Gig always-on connection and pages load almost instantaneously, i totally forgot about dialup and all i find myself thinking from time to time is that i wish that movie could download before the pizza arrives.
I did most of my schooling in the 1980s. During those pre-web days, if you had a question in mind then all you could do, other than ask someone in your family or friends, is go to devote half an afternoon to go to the local library, think what topic it might be under, and then hope that they'd have some books about it that were less than 2 decades old, that the books would be on the shelf where they're supposed to be, and that they'd actually contain something useful. Often it didn't help.
Nowadays it's crazy. Almost anything you wanna find out about is online.
Lately i've been abandoning books too. I've been using the latest version of adobe acrobat reader which has an autoscroll function that's just way too comfrtable especially when using a notebook with a good LCD display. Otherwise there's a version of acrobat for Palm and for Pocket PC. Ebooks are everywhere. It's been a while since i bought a dead-trees book, and when i last did i wasn't too impressed with the amount of info in it.
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I had a cellular phone relatively early, back in the days of 1993. It was a Sony. I stopped using it, and using cellphones all together after i started getting headaches after talking on them. Most worrisome to me was that the phone got uncomfortably hot when I talked on it for any significant time, and then afterwards I'd start feeling that heat in my brain, sorta the side I was the using the phone just deeper my ear, almost an inch or two inside. I concluded I could do without that considerable amount of radiation and I was unwilling to go through the Tobacco-industry-versus-consumers over-whether-smoking-is-bad-for-you several-decades-debate-before-the-corporate-spin-
That said though, the idea of something exploding in my pants is even more unwelcome. I assure you the contents of my pants might even be more sensitive than my head. I never understood people who were comfortable carrying their cellphones in their pants. Testicles are very sensitive to radiation and there is only a layer of skin covering them. I almost never carried my cellphone in my pocket. Recently i stopped using a laptop in my lap too, preferring to use it on a desk, or using some hard thick material such as a folder between me and it. Testicles are too precious.
The open source mindset isn't academic; it's far from that. The academic mindset is even more disciplined than the business mindset. There are many occasions and examples why many things are abandoned by academia to only thrive in a business setting. I'd say business is more deregulated than academia is, and open source is even more deregulated than business.
I say this as someone who stayed in academia for 8 years and then left it due to the restrictive environment; believe me, business is more deregulated than academia.
i like all those things you mentioned about mozilla; i can no longer surf the web without multizilla, optimoz mouse gestures, bookmarks' keywords which i've customized so all i have to do to search google is type something like "gg keyword" or google groups "gr keyword"... etc
expect things to come out of russia, china, india, and eastern europe in years to come.
On seeing the icons in this story it's remarkable that the IE logo still looks good after all those years. I guess it's a testiment to the enduring beauty of simplicity. It's partly the reason i don't like KDE, which has often been keen to endorse "Trendy" stuff like glassball icons and aquafied look.
It's more important to be a successful entrepreneur than a successful technician or technologist. The same probably applies in other fields of industry or services.
I think it's time those involved with education start giving as much or even more attention to entrepreneurial, economic, or financial literacy than they currently do to technology, computing or information literacy.
I agree with that... i have at times got replies and emails regarding usenet posts i made from open source celebrities and sometimes, remembering a name, i only find out later who ther person is or how important he is when i see him quoted or mentioned in some historical account in some article online. And i think... "whoaaa!!"
I don't fully understand why people are being so critical of TV. It doesn't rot brains, but if you sit down for hours upon hours per day or per week with no specific plan for something better to do then that would be a problem, the TV is just a tool.
That said, like is not all about tasking. If you want a balanced life then a third of your time ought to go into productive, task-based activities, a third into fun, non-task oriented, recreational and refreshing, guilt-free play activities, and a third for your sleep. I, personally, often find TV useful as an entertainment medium. That said though, I'd totally agree that 80-90% of the material on TV is not suitable for my taste and sensibilities. But those that are, i am very selective with. My main interests are news, documentaries and arthouse movies. I almost never care about other things. And for me, often watching a documentary about someone or something, especially if it's a good documentary, is either useful or entertaining.
The beauty of television is that it's a convenient, up-to-date and instant medium. An picture is worth a thousand words, they said, and I'm sure a motion picture such as a video clip is worth even more. There are many books that are useful, and there are many individuals whose company is likely bad for you. It's just about selectiveness.
All you have to do is sort your search descendingly according to the number of sources; the more sources a movie or whatever has, the more likely it is to be good quality 'cos most people only keep good copies and delete corrupted ones.
Don't mind those people... they're totally unrealistic. Comparing an online university to Harvard or Ivy league ones is ridiculous, 'cos most people can't get into these anyway.
I don't know about UoPhoenix or DeVry, but what i know is that the MBA from The Open University in England has a very good reputation, and it's a correspondence school. I am not sure about their other courses but i know they have a long long history of corresponce degrees and are generally respected.
That said, however, I'd suggest you stay in your school unless it's a totally crappy one 'cos you don't wanna risk perceptions, and perceptions matter in the real world even if they're false. I think the general perception is that if all things are equal, an attended education is better than a correspondence/online one. Where an online degree comes in as good is when it's an extra one. Such as someone i heard about from an academic who did a PhD in engineering while he did an MBA by correspondence from the open university. Or for example if you're working, then doing a correspondence degree that is a plus.
I suggest you stay at your school.
Now, if your going to complain about the "lack of software" for doing AV work on a mac, I'm honestly going to have to ask what drugs you've done today: that's pretty much been their main market since time began.
When they started was different. I still recall mac in the 1980s and early 1990s and yes, back then it was superior third-party-software-wise, in quality rather than quantity at least. There's more third-party AV work software on windows now than on the mac, and it's better quality too if you're willing to pay for the professional prices. Now software comes out sooner on windows and it takes ages on the mac, if it ever comes out. I had a mac recently; i abandoned it due to lack of third-party software, i know what i'm talking about.
I'm curious how it'll perform against the new AMD 64 chip. I'd love to see a comparison with a comparable dual processor AMD 64 chip.
My friend has an ibook and often i have to struggle with her to find a software tool for the mac to do something for which there's almost certainly an abundance of windows tools somewhere on the net that'll do it automatically. Ironically even linux often had more options and essential software than the mac; i usually get her to download a linux tool that's been ported to os x. It's nice to have so much processing power but unless there's plenty of software the mac will be limited to running a specific function such as movie editing or photoshop, for which again there's more on the windows and what makes it even worse is that recently software makers, such as adobe, have been abandoning the mac; it just won't be a good machine for general desktop use, there aren't even many mac games. This is really such a niche machine.
If i had such a machine i'd install linux. But again, i'd rather have one that'll run both linux and windows. It seems unnecessary to abandon all the desktop apps in the wintel world.
A good and comfortable pen for me is an absolute necessity, not a nice thing; I have RSI yet have to write a lot, and if I use an ordinary pen my wrist starts hurting within a couple of minutes, sometimes almost instantly. So this summer i spent a lot of time and money researching and testing pens; trust me, my wrist is a highly sensitive testing tool for pens, and here are my findings.
The best and most comfortable pens by far of the many many i tested were the Stabilo 's move family, of which i have only used the powerball and i'm extremely satisfied with it, it has a curved shape, an extremely comfortable grip, and it writes like a dream with an amazingly smooth tip and ink, it's also refillable; here are pages about them, first, second, third.
A comfortable pencil is Pentech softech LX. An alternative is a sheaffer delta grip. The sheaffer delta grip ballpoint pen is comfortable too and there are Pentech seoftech ballpoints too, but i prefer the stabilo 's move powerball.
If you need highlighters then i would recommend either stabilo luminator or stabilo boss original. Some Bic highlighters are also good.
Some i have tested and might be worthy of mention, though the above are better are Dr. Grip pens. Also worthy of mention though i have not tried this one is the Cross morph, though i have read an ergonomic review that said the pentech softech was more comfortable than the cross morph, so i'll just stay with the stabilo 's move.
I have not found other pens that were better than those in terms of comfort; my wrist tells me very quickly if a pen is even slightly uncomfortable. Expensive pens aren't necessarily comfortable, mont blanc and lamy were more about style than comfort, in my experience. I also wouldn't recommend the pilot precise v5, i remember using it in the 1980s, i have tried it recently, comfortwise it's very poor.
patenting something like this is outrageous.
medical practice is full of situations where one drug proves useful for diseases other than that it wasn't designed for. Viagra for example was initially a cardiovascular drug that just happened to have the side effect of inducing erections, so it was remarketed for that. Aspirin was a painkiller that was discovered to thin the blood and prevent heart attacks so the majority of seniors take it now. Gee, there are endless examples... Chlorpromazine was a sedative agent that was found to reduce hallucinations in people with schizophrenia, imipramine was a cardiovascular drug that was found to make depressed people feel better, gee... i could go on and on...
This shouldn't be patentable.
that dude in the pic running away looks hilarious...
eh... nothing beats the playfulness of the recently retired.
the whole thing is about online piracy... it used to be the case that movies took as long as half a year or almost a year for them to premiere in europe after they've been on and gone in the US.
i never knew that the 2Kw little fan heater i have would cost so much if those numbers were used. Had my fan heater been powered by solar energy it would've cost what...? $4 per watt? what about 2Kw? gee even $0.20 sounds like much
is the 2Kw on the fan heater per hour or per minute or second or what?
There should be some law or penalty against meaningless lawsuits. There should be some law or penalty against predatory lawyers. There should be some law or regulation to give the profession of law some credibility.
...downhill!
I think it is now as good as it'll ever be.
The threat won't come from Microsoft, though they have money, intention and technologies they just don't have the credibility and trustworthiness. It won't be overture, they're clearly not into that mindset. It won't be IBM, at least not directly.
It will start, first of all, with Google's IPO.
The future as i see it will be the commoditization of web searching through distributed/grid computing and resource-sharing, and distributed/p2p-based open source search systems. It will be fueled by dissatisfaction with Google as a commercial entity. It will be helped by globalization, anti-american sentiment worldwide and nations wanting to handle their own informational destiny. And it'll be facitilitated by enhanced always-on broadband (many residential places already offer 54mbps) and cheap storage (a 320gb hard-drive is already on my shopping list for this month, for my personal use).
I don't see a reason other than time and technology why p2p won't evolve to handle websearching, I'm sure soon someone will figure out a way to harness the network and introduce the paradigm shift that napster did in the late nineties, i still remember what it was like before napster, maybe some form of implicit anonymous rating or whatever. At least then, when i search for a chinese restaurant, i'm likely to get an answer that is in my neighbourhood.
It won't be all that interesting because by the time that happens almost everyone else wuld be doing it and at least expecting it; they'll almost definintely have reasons to complain and wish for more. Back in the days of dialup we dreamt about broadband for a while, and now that it's almost everywhere, and that i have a half-Gig always-on connection and pages load almost instantaneously, i totally forgot about dialup and all i find myself thinking from time to time is that i wish that movie could download before the pizza arrives.
I did most of my schooling in the 1980s. During those pre-web days, if you had a question in mind then all you could do, other than ask someone in your family or friends, is go to devote half an afternoon to go to the local library, think what topic it might be under, and then hope that they'd have some books about it that were less than 2 decades old, that the books would be on the shelf where they're supposed to be, and that they'd actually contain something useful. Often it didn't help.
Nowadays it's crazy. Almost anything you wanna find out about is online.
Lately i've been abandoning books too. I've been using the latest version of adobe acrobat reader which has an autoscroll function that's just way too comfrtable especially when using a notebook with a good LCD display. Otherwise there's a version of acrobat for Palm and for Pocket PC. Ebooks are everywhere. It's been a while since i bought a dead-trees book, and when i last did i wasn't too impressed with the amount of info in it.
why is regulation necessary?
what's its use for the windows NT logon?
This is unbelievable...
A *large hardon* collider that will simulate the *big bang*!!!
LOL
who named this thing!