"Given that there where 100,000 pre-orders alone, does this mean that yet again Apple hit on a niche that no one else (including me) thought would sell."
And all my friends laughed at me when i bought stock in a fruit. But all i know was apple with this news their stock is at 26.87 up 1.37 / 5.37%
not exactly correct. The cellular phones interfere with the cardiac monitoring equipment and some of the imaging equipment (although i really doubt that a cell phone is going to last long enough to mess up an MRI). However it is the frequency they work on that causes the problem. That is why pagers are so popular in the hospital setting.
Picture phones are another problem. The advent of picture phones has led to bans of cell phones in medical, children, exercise, entertainment environments. While they exist they are poorly enforced.
The other issue mentioned about governemnt and security. Well if you are in one of thos jobs that has cell phone bans, i am surprised i am even having to explain this to you. YOU CAN BE TRACKED BY YOUR CELL PHONE. (watch "the recruit" they focus in on that one a lot). If you dont understand the implications of being tracked you probably shouldnt have that classified clearance you have.
but the thing is we all take for granted that the internet is just a free thing. We all forget about the hundred of computers, the power, the bandwidth, the development, etc. these sites are not just put out there out of the goodness of the authors heart, they have to at least break even, and most companies prefer to make a little profit. I hate ads as much as the next person, but a couple of ads sure beats having to pay for services online.
dont you just love how everyone in the world only concerned with themselves. I mean this is a clear example of why Earth should be more united because our petty differences wont mean anything when a big ___ rock is hurling at us. Of course people first reaction will be well, poor (put countries name here) they should have done better to protect their people. When instead we should be like we failed mankind by letting that happen. Ok my 15 seconds are up, and I am now stepping off my soap box.
I think one thing that is interesting is how the movie industry already touched upon this. Quite often the movie industry because of their ability to think outside of the box is able to come up with scenarios that ordinarily wouldnt be thought of or addressed. A quite clear example is how the US government after sept 11th hired some movie writers to help look at security holes or lapses that could potentially be exploited. I guess the question remains though are we going to then follow hollywoods ideas on how to address such threats?
be an interesting case, if your house is situated under or near those lines setting up a collecting station. I am sure the power company would argue that you are stealing services. I guess the biggest factor is who owns the land under the lines.
in the end wont all electronic communication be impossible to tap with the right encryption. Its something that the NSA is much fearing. Its already causing inteligence agency to start to refocus on human intelegence over electronic.
almost like they are trying to make it so someone wins this year. THe money doesnt have to be awarded this year, so why lax the rules, give the teams more time and they can develop something even better.
I just create a ghost of the system with everything installed and every so often just wipe the computer and reinstall things. Takes a little doing to get the parents trained well enough to save files correctly, but it works well, and every 6 months i sit down for a couple hours and reinstall everything. Maybe over doing it but I dont have to do anything in between except change ink cartridges
as we see technology inch into out society more in the medical field we will see more incidents of things like this happening. I know many hospitals are moving to computer based medication system, records, etc. A programing error could easily kill someone.
With this happening i think people wouldnt have any issue on arguing how programers need to be accountable for thier programs. So if they should be held responsible, should people who program other things like operating system be accountable to flaws in their programing?
I remember in high school all the student computers were Macs, all the administrative computers were PCs. A couple of the students who complained about the enequalness of this were allowed to help out the computer dept with keeping computers running. The arguments ended quite quickly when they saw how easier it was to maintain the macs despite the heavy abuse they took from students.
Who really needs all that power. While I know I am talking to a group that loves more power and can find ways to use ever bit of their processor. The average computer user uses their computer for Word Processing, Excel, E-Mail, and internet. Do you need 3ghz and a gig of ram. No. that windows 98 machine will work wonders, and honestly is probably more efficient than having something with a bunch of bells and whistles.
I was asked to help out with a friend of mines company when they purchased a bunch of new computers. He was going to use them for word and e-mail and that was about it. He brought this list of a couple computers he was thinking of purchasing each about $1000, I was like here we can go buy 3 computers at that price that are a little older and you are set. He now running 5 machines with 98 all networked and with a networked printer for what he was planning on spending for 2 new computers. And they work great.
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"Given that there where 100,000 pre-orders alone, does this mean that yet again Apple hit on a niche that no one else (including me) thought would sell."
And all my friends laughed at me when i bought stock in a fruit. But all i know was apple with this news their stock is at 26.87 up 1.37 / 5.37%
open office is free too, but to everyone
Some of the weirder things they claim in it is that by choosing MS Office over OpenOffice.org one is protected from the threat of viruses
yes because i get all sort of virus alerts about new security threats for open office.
just intigrate this technology of picking up words that havent been spoken yet
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we can develop warp drives and phasers. I give a little time on the photon torpedoes.
not exactly correct. The cellular phones interfere with the cardiac monitoring equipment and some of the imaging equipment (although i really doubt that a cell phone is going to last long enough to mess up an MRI). However it is the frequency they work on that causes the problem. That is why pagers are so popular in the hospital setting.
Picture phones are another problem. The advent of picture phones has led to bans of cell phones in medical, children, exercise, entertainment environments. While they exist they are poorly enforced.
The other issue mentioned about governemnt and security. Well if you are in one of thos jobs that has cell phone bans, i am surprised i am even having to explain this to you. YOU CAN BE TRACKED BY YOUR CELL PHONE. (watch "the recruit" they focus in on that one a lot). If you dont understand the implications of being tracked you probably shouldnt have that classified clearance you have.
Well my 2 cents worth.
but the thing is we all take for granted that the internet is just a free thing. We all forget about the hundred of computers, the power, the bandwidth, the development, etc. these sites are not just put out there out of the goodness of the authors heart, they have to at least break even, and most companies prefer to make a little profit. I hate ads as much as the next person, but a couple of ads sure beats having to pay for services online.
dont most of these people already do this, they just bunch it somewhere in the ULA and just about everyone clicks ok.
dont you just love how everyone in the world only concerned with themselves. I mean this is a clear example of why Earth should be more united because our petty differences wont mean anything when a big ___ rock is hurling at us. Of course people first reaction will be well, poor (put countries name here) they should have done better to protect their people. When instead we should be like we failed mankind by letting that happen. Ok my 15 seconds are up, and I am now stepping off my soap box.
Just my 3 cents worth (damn inflation).
I think one thing that is interesting is how the movie industry already touched upon this. Quite often the movie industry because of their ability to think outside of the box is able to come up with scenarios that ordinarily wouldnt be thought of or addressed. A quite clear example is how the US government after sept 11th hired some movie writers to help look at security holes or lapses that could potentially be exploited. I guess the question remains though are we going to then follow hollywoods ideas on how to address such threats?
i wonder if it would qualify for the Darpa competition. I think it would be an interesting twist if it did.
be an interesting case, if your house is situated under or near those lines setting up a collecting station. I am sure the power company would argue that you are stealing services. I guess the biggest factor is who owns the land under the lines.
here a picture of it being done Field of light
its a sad day when the american dream is to movie to India.
poor hulk hogan who will no longer be able to tear his shirt off.
this could nicely lead to next generation of armor especially bullet proof vests.
in the end wont all electronic communication be impossible to tap with the right encryption. Its something that the NSA is much fearing. Its already causing inteligence agency to start to refocus on human intelegence over electronic.
is it me or is this a bad link?
with everything going wireless, will we even need to wire houses of the future (well i guess power might be necessary)?
almost like they are trying to make it so someone wins this year. THe money doesnt have to be awarded this year, so why lax the rules, give the teams more time and they can develop something even better.
I just create a ghost of the system with everything installed and every so often just wipe the computer and reinstall things. Takes a little doing to get the parents trained well enough to save files correctly, but it works well, and every 6 months i sit down for a couple hours and reinstall everything. Maybe over doing it but I dont have to do anything in between except change ink cartridges
as we see technology inch into out society more in the medical field we will see more incidents of things like this happening. I know many hospitals are moving to computer based medication system, records, etc. A programing error could easily kill someone.
With this happening i think people wouldnt have any issue on arguing how programers need to be accountable for thier programs. So if they should be held responsible, should people who program other things like operating system be accountable to flaws in their programing?
I remember in high school all the student computers were Macs, all the administrative computers were PCs. A couple of the students who complained about the enequalness of this were allowed to help out the computer dept with keeping computers running. The arguments ended quite quickly when they saw how easier it was to maintain the macs despite the heavy abuse they took from students.
Who really needs all that power. While I know I am talking to a group that loves more power and can find ways to use ever bit of their processor. The average computer user uses their computer for Word Processing, Excel, E-Mail, and internet. Do you need 3ghz and a gig of ram. No. that windows 98 machine will work wonders, and honestly is probably more efficient than having something with a bunch of bells and whistles.
I was asked to help out with a friend of mines company when they purchased a bunch of new computers. He was going to use them for word and e-mail and that was about it. He brought this list of a couple computers he was thinking of purchasing each about $1000, I was like here we can go buy 3 computers at that price that are a little older and you are set. He now running 5 machines with 98 all networked and with a networked printer for what he was planning on spending for 2 new computers. And they work great.
ah but bill gates doens see it that way. He believes the future of computers is in the software. Pack it full of "features".
Here read up on what he said at MIT on computers.