At some point, the only copying utility that will remain on the market will be pen/pencil and paper.
Perhaps the *cough* Honorable Mr. Hatch is a big investor in Sanford (Berol, Papermate etc.) or Binney & Smith (Crayola), trying to get rid of this whole "technology thing" before it enters your homes...
You can't even say "Blame Canada" for this one.
- Thanking *insert preferred diety here* I live in Canada
Having replaced an aging communication system in the middle of nowhere (no phone lines / roads / etc.) with a VoIP solution, I would have to declare the author of this news article to be a bit of an alarmist.
The *average* home user has never installed a telephone switch, what is it about VoIP and WLAN's that suddenly makes them professionals?
In my environment, it required a couple of months of ensuring QoS (reducing delay as much as possible, echo cancellation, etc.) before we were satisfied. As with all implementations of new technology, there were some pitfalls and blind alleys. However, that was 4 years ago, and the overall performance improvement over the previous "analog" system left the client with a smile.
It is a very dangerous idea to assume that having the tools automatically qualifies you as an expert.
Investigations into VoIP should first be driven by cost, then by performance, and finally by features.
In our environment, VoIP allowed a more flexible utilization of available bandwidth, with dynamic allocation of bandwidth for voice / data communications, providing a more cost-effective utilization of the service.
Many of the comments posted thus far are critical about the costs associated with purchasing new books each year for the classrooms. Although there are many subjects that do require new material yearly, the single biggest reason is this:
<B>Kids are hard on books</B><P> Do you remember going to school and doodling? Highlighting? Tearing out pages of chapters that you didn't cover and turning them into projectiles?<P> I'm not certain that laptop computers are the ideal solution, but they are a step in a different direction. Perhaps a more useful product/tool/toy that <B>may</B> receive better care and attention than the average History book.
Although out of focus for the "actual movie", it's more in line with the way the "real" story plays out:
- To The Well Again! -
George Lucas has proven that, in the absence of a genuinely new idea, we (I include myself here) are happy to drink up an old story presented with improved special effects. Hell, we don't even need the marketing machine to tell us how thirsty we are...
It is unfortuante that many/. readers discovered Robert Enderle only via the Acer/Ferrari article.
In that article, Enderle had one important point to make, but he chose to cloud it with vague attempts at humour which only served to detract from the overall story:
- Affluent non-technical people prefer products with polish at the expense of performance
I suspect that if Enderle rewrote the article to remove his attempts at humour people would discover that he really isn't an idiot. He's just not funny.
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At some point, the only copying utility that will remain on the market will be pen/pencil and paper.
Perhaps the *cough* Honorable Mr. Hatch is a big investor in Sanford (Berol, Papermate etc.) or Binney & Smith (Crayola), trying to get rid of this whole "technology thing" before it enters your homes...
You can't even say "Blame Canada" for this one.
- Thanking *insert preferred diety here* I live in Canada
The patent was filed 13 years ago - and it's not that vague.
I don't agree with the general premise of cash grabs for vague crap (ala recent Microsoft, SCO, etc.), but this sounds 'reasonably' legit.
I don't like it, but that doesn't stop it from being true.
Having replaced an aging communication system in the middle of nowhere (no phone lines / roads / etc.) with a VoIP solution, I would have to declare the author of this news article to be a bit of an alarmist.
The *average* home user has never installed a telephone switch, what is it about VoIP and WLAN's that suddenly makes them professionals?
In my environment, it required a couple of months of ensuring QoS (reducing delay as much as possible, echo cancellation, etc.) before we were satisfied. As with all implementations of new technology, there were some pitfalls and blind alleys. However, that was 4 years ago, and the overall performance improvement over the previous "analog" system left the client with a smile.
It is a very dangerous idea to assume that having the tools automatically qualifies you as an expert.
Investigations into VoIP should first be driven by cost, then by performance, and finally by features.
In our environment, VoIP allowed a more flexible utilization of available bandwidth, with dynamic allocation of bandwidth for voice / data communications, providing a more cost-effective utilization of the service.
History is written by the victors. - Winston Churchill
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill
<B>Kids are hard on books</B><P>
Do you remember going to school and doodling? Highlighting? Tearing out pages of chapters that you didn't cover and turning them into projectiles?<P>
I'm not certain that laptop computers are the ideal solution, but they are a step in a different direction. Perhaps a more useful product/tool/toy that <B>may</B> receive better care and attention than the average History book.
- To The Well Again! -
George Lucas has proven that, in the absence of a genuinely new idea, we (I include myself here) are happy to drink up an old story presented with improved special effects. Hell, we don't even need the marketing machine to tell us how thirsty we are...
This is not the sig you're looking for.
It is unfortuante that many /. readers discovered Robert Enderle only via the Acer/Ferrari article.
In that article, Enderle had one important point to make, but he chose to cloud it with vague attempts at humour which only served to detract from the overall story:
- Affluent non-technical people prefer products with polish at the expense of performance
I suspect that if Enderle rewrote the article to remove his attempts at humour people would discover that he really isn't an idiot. He's just not funny.