Well, the US government probably funds this particular form of fusion research as much to improve their H-bomb designs under the test ban as to find a new energy source. Building a practical reactor isn't necessarily the main goal.
Because the governmaent is interested in a bomb that requires 192 amplified lasers on a pellet of frozen hydrogen...and then proceeds to produce the energy equivalent of a light bulb?
The government is not too likely to be using this research track as a method of improving bomb yields, as they use VERY different methods to reach a similarly named goal.
Although I would assume the government would be interested in a massive clean power source that they could regulate/run. If you wanna be really pessimistic. Less oil into power generation means more oil for tanks, planes, boats, helicopters, etc.
"Why can't other car makers come up with a better UI than pedals and a wheel? Why can't they come up with something better and original?"
I haven't done the search, but I am willing to bet that dashboard layouts, instrument clusters and other elements of a car's overall UI are patented. A car has not just been a Steering wheel and pedals on a box since the Model-T
"Why can't other telephone makers come up with a better UI than a 3x4 array of keys with numbers and letters? Why can't they come up with something better and original?"
If you look at many of the latest Nokia phones, they are attempting to come up with differnt layouts for the numbers on their phones. The problem here seems to be that many people find it unfamiliar, so there fore, "clunky" but, it is being attempted. Again, I bet those atempts are patented.
"Why can't other CD player makers come up with a better UI than a Play/Pause, Stop, FF and Rewind buttons? Why can't they come up with something better and original?"
Yet again, like a car, there are certain functions that are inherent in a cd (or for that matter a mp3 player). What does get pattented is the layout of the buttons, the overall look and feel of that specific player.
So, yes user interfaces are supposed to be similar, but, this only means that they have to have certain elements in relatively familiar locations. How that is implemented, in whatever product you are discussing, is the UI, not the required elements themselves.
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That is usually a sign that they are on the lower end of the spectrum...or possibly a subsidary of some corporate behemoth that is more worried about the bottom line than happy customers.
When you consider that the profit from one job can pay for your software upgrade, it is a silly place to pinch pennies.
Actually, having worked in many print shops over the years, we update to new software etc almost immediately. We can not afford to ever be in a situation where a client says "we made this software in ______" and we have to respond "oh, we don't have that can you re-do it in something else?"
Bad business, when you are at the mercy of your customer coming to you.
So instead we make sure to keep VERY up to date. On the other hand we also have an OS9 and a Windows box chugging along with a whole slew of old out dated software on it as well. Just in case.
no it is not legal, but, I get a large amount of my music by borrowing CD's from the Library and ripping them. They never seem to have anything to current, but I have gotten a ton of just about anything over about 5 years old that way.
My local branch seems to have a heavy empahsis on blues and country, but if I drive across town, it changes to classical and more middle of the road fare. not sure if this is available out side of the US though...check with your local library.
Good color calibration...realtively, realistic contrast. no.
What you see and what you get is consitently further apart on the Cinema Display than in comparison to a Barco CRT. Now granted you are spending the same amount of money on the Barco as you are on a Cinema Display, but you then get the ability to control your focus and color across a 9x9 grid of the screen. Oh and a reliable controlable and calibrated monitor that can be viewed from any angle...a must when working with clients in shop.
Also, see the troubles they had when the power went out an hour or so before they were set to open...
Mostly revolving around the fact that they would not be able to run off of a generator easily...if at all.
"because there are other people here to freak out for me, if freaking is warranted. They'll handle it."
One of the people he has to "handle it" woke me up from a well deserved nap to ask where one can get a generator at 9pm on a Friday...answer: you can't.
but that is slightly different than the posters question. he is moving to a new area code, and wanting to change his service, I do not find it surprising that the local carriers are saying no to him.
If he is interested in keeping his same number, area code included, he could switch to which ever service he wants back in the area that his phone is from.
When I moved from San Francisco to LA (then back again a year later) I never changed my billing. I already had free roaming and no long distance charges, so I just kept my 415 area code, even though I lived in LA. Aside from the slight annoyance of having to explain that I really lived in LA, it was no problem, ATT just sent my bill to my LA address.
I can go buy a brand new car today, and proceed to rip off all of the emission controls, seatbelt, windshield etc. And have myself a moving death-trap/platform that spews noxious gas. I just can not drive it on the public roads. If I have a farm or a chunk of land I can drive that thing all I want to, and no govn't agency can stop me....For now at least.
But,
If I buy one of these TV's and rip out all the "protection", I have now just broken the law under the DMCA. It doesn't matter if I never send any of my copies out of my possesion or not.
Actually, simply being able to sutput a CMYK file and not work within the color space, GIMP is still useless to anyone in the print world.
I spend about half my time in the RGB space, then the other half in CMYK, there is no reliable way to translate "take 2% out of the magenta and 7% out of the black" acurately from RGB->CMYK.
As long as I am making these kind of corrections to CMYK files there is no way I can rely on GIMP
The other side is, I pay for photoshop because I can work best within it. 10 years of using an application makes it both familiar and "easy". I have no problem paying adobe for upgrades to allow me to make money.
Well, I am not sure about on the windows side, but I have a ton of apple scripts set up for Photoshop on the mac. Between those and photoshops built in actions I can automate just about anything that I would want to.
The biggest issue with the GIMP that I see, is that the majority of people out there making money with photoshop have no desire to learn something new. I include myself in that...I have been using photoshop now since version 2, and can use the app practically in my sleep. There is no need to think about "now how will I do that? What menu/palette/option is that?"
I have played with the GIMP off and on, and while I think it is a great program. I see no reason to switch to it for my main app. Especially as 2 hours of billable work pays for an upgrade to photoshop.
After the game had been out for a while though, we noticed that many keys were often in use up to their maximum number of instances. Obviously people were doing a whole lot of sharing, so we tightened down the number and saw a moderate spike in sales follow immediately, without a noticeable decline in player base.
So, by allowing folks to play your game for a while "pirated" you actually increased your sales over all?
it's completely debatable how much harm is being done by piracey, but the fact remains that it's not doing anybody any good.
It seems that this is wrong, as it did help your company. I think you have a great idea going, allow easy pirating of your stand alone version, then if they try and get onto some form of shared gaming, get really strict. It would allow a person to figure out if they are getting a "good" game.
of course for this to work you would need to have some pretty damn good on-line play
5. Complicated remotes (see #1) - Do we really need more than 30 buttons in our remotes? Menu systems please!
I agreed with you up until I went out and tried many "universal" remotes, mostly in the high end, all with multi function buttons or menu's and touch screens.
I have since returned them all and gone back to multiple remotes. The biggest drawback of all the multi-function ones is that you actually have to look down at the remote to push the buttons, if only to make sure that you are not doing somethng you don't want. This becomes even worse with the touch screen ones where you definitely have to look because you have no tactile feed back at all.
So, i returned my last attempt and spent $5 at crate and barrel for a basket that sits on my coffee table, now i just grab the remote i need.
One reason is that all of the alternate light sources are no where near as pleaseing to the majority of people, the yellow "glow" of an incandescent bulb wins in the majority of preference tests. None of the other types of bulbs are as friendly.
Also there is the simple fact of how many are installed out there in the world. Think of how much you would have to spend to switch over one medium sized house. Afterwards you are saving money but your living room feels like the waiting room of your doctors office because of this harsh white light.
My Motorola V60 color (link goes to att wireless) will do exactly what you are asking, i press a button, say "dial" pause then say the numbers slowly and clearly. Works in all but really windy/noisey environments.
Many articles talking about this promotion have been saying both apple and pesi are figuring on a 10-20% redemption rate...which is actually really optimistic as these things go.
This program will let you copy music back from the ipod to your computer, put the installer on to your ipod, now you can copy where you wish. This was with a quick search of the Window portion of Version Tracker. There was also apps to sync contacts in the generic search.
Apple made it only slightly difficult to pull music off of the ipod. There are many apps for OSX already to do this, heck, you can do it manually by doing a find in OSX with the "is invisible" flag set.
It is only a matter of time before there are more options for the Windows world
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Do you have anywhere that i can see these suspension systems on line? I am currently working on a sand rail, and i am relatively unhappy with the standard coil over spring/gas shock solutions, not for any good technical reason, but mostly because i know how to do those, and i am building this to try and do things i have not done before.
Why does everything have to be a "killer", especially in the techno/geek world?
I am no huge propenant of "why can't we all get along", but whenever i see another compnay come out with any sort of decent product, my first thought is not "oh this will knock xyz product from the top spot" but "oh good, now xyz product is also going to have to improve".
This is how our market works (overly simplified, yes). If there was no competition, you would have no reason to improve your product, whatever you came out with would be the only choice.
So instead of constantly assuming something is going to "kill" another product. Just buy the one you like, that has the features you need, make the trade off for the features the other has that the one you are buying doesn't. Most importantly, realize, that once a product has a significant market share, and backing by the company that makes it (a nod to netscape here) it is not going away.
Just keep hoping that there IS someone to compete with apple for the hard drive mp3 market, because if not, then Apple will truly become the "microsoft of music" with all the problems attached to that.
Just having gone through the research of buying a home dvd recorder, i can say that in those, dvd-r seems to be the overall leader, by about 2-1, the only brand that will burn both is the sony.
this was a completely informal survey based on the "info cards" at my local electronics store.
the biggest problem seems to be that none of them would pass the "girfriend test", except the $900 tivo/dvdr from pioneer.
My girfriend and i are both cellular only (29-34 demographic).We have a land line, the tivo and directv are hooked up to it, i keep an old rotary phone in the closet though just in case (1.99 at the thrift store).
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Because the governmaent is interested in a bomb that requires 192 amplified lasers on a pellet of frozen hydrogen...and then proceeds to produce the energy equivalent of a light bulb?
The government is not too likely to be using this research track as a method of improving bomb yields, as they use VERY different methods to reach a similarly named goal.
Although I would assume the government would be interested in a massive clean power source that they could regulate/run. If you wanna be really pessimistic. Less oil into power generation means more oil for tanks, planes, boats, helicopters, etc.
I haven't done the search, but I am willing to bet that dashboard layouts, instrument clusters and other elements of a car's overall UI are patented. A car has not just been a Steering wheel and pedals on a box since the Model-T
"Why can't other telephone makers come up with a better UI than a 3x4 array of keys with numbers and letters? Why can't they come up with something better and original?"
If you look at many of the latest Nokia phones, they are attempting to come up with differnt layouts for the numbers on their phones. The problem here seems to be that many people find it unfamiliar, so there fore, "clunky" but, it is being attempted. Again, I bet those atempts are patented.
"Why can't other CD player makers come up with a better UI than a Play/Pause, Stop, FF and Rewind buttons? Why can't they come up with something better and original?" Yet again, like a car, there are certain functions that are inherent in a cd (or for that matter a mp3 player). What does get pattented is the layout of the buttons, the overall look and feel of that specific player.
So, yes user interfaces are supposed to be similar, but, this only means that they have to have certain elements in relatively familiar locations. How that is implemented, in whatever product you are discussing, is the UI, not the required elements themselves. --
When you consider that the profit from one job can pay for your software upgrade, it is a silly place to pinch pennies.
Bad business, when you are at the mercy of your customer coming to you.
So instead we make sure to keep VERY up to date. On the other hand we also have an OS9 and a Windows box chugging along with a whole slew of old out dated software on it as well. Just in case.
My local branch seems to have a heavy empahsis on blues and country, but if I drive across town, it changes to classical and more middle of the road fare. not sure if this is available out side of the US though...check with your local library.
What you see and what you get is consitently further apart on the Cinema Display than in comparison to a Barco CRT. Now granted you are spending the same amount of money on the Barco as you are on a Cinema Display, but you then get the ability to control your focus and color across a 9x9 grid of the screen. Oh and a reliable controlable and calibrated monitor that can be viewed from any angle...a must when working with clients in shop.
Mostly revolving around the fact that they would not be able to run off of a generator easily...if at all.
"because there are other people here to freak out for me, if freaking is warranted. They'll handle it."
One of the people he has to "handle it" woke me up from a well deserved nap to ask where one can get a generator at 9pm on a Friday...answer: you can't.
If he is interested in keeping his same number, area code included, he could switch to which ever service he wants back in the area that his phone is from.
When I moved from San Francisco to LA (then back again a year later) I never changed my billing. I already had free roaming and no long distance charges, so I just kept my 415 area code, even though I lived in LA. Aside from the slight annoyance of having to explain that I really lived in LA, it was no problem, ATT just sent my bill to my LA address.
I can go buy a brand new car today, and proceed to rip off all of the emission controls, seatbelt, windshield etc. And have myself a moving death-trap/platform that spews noxious gas. I just can not drive it on the public roads. If I have a farm or a chunk of land I can drive that thing all I want to, and no govn't agency can stop me....For now at least.
But,
If I buy one of these TV's and rip out all the "protection", I have now just broken the law under the DMCA. It doesn't matter if I never send any of my copies out of my possesion or not.
I spend about half my time in the RGB space, then the other half in CMYK, there is no reliable way to translate "take 2% out of the magenta and 7% out of the black" acurately from RGB->CMYK.
As long as I am making these kind of corrections to CMYK files there is no way I can rely on GIMP
The other side is, I pay for photoshop because I can work best within it. 10 years of using an application makes it both familiar and "easy". I have no problem paying adobe for upgrades to allow me to make money.
The biggest issue with the GIMP that I see, is that the majority of people out there making money with photoshop have no desire to learn something new. I include myself in that...I have been using photoshop now since version 2, and can use the app practically in my sleep. There is no need to think about "now how will I do that? What menu/palette/option is that?"
I have played with the GIMP off and on, and while I think it is a great program. I see no reason to switch to it for my main app. Especially as 2 hours of billable work pays for an upgrade to photoshop.
So, by allowing folks to play your game for a while "pirated" you actually increased your sales over all?
it's completely debatable how much harm is being done by piracey, but the fact remains that it's not doing anybody any good.
It seems that this is wrong, as it did help your company. I think you have a great idea going, allow easy pirating of your stand alone version, then if they try and get onto some form of shared gaming, get really strict. It would allow a person to figure out if they are getting a "good" game.
of course for this to work you would need to have some pretty damn good on-line play
I agreed with you up until I went out and tried many "universal" remotes, mostly in the high end, all with multi function buttons or menu's and touch screens.
I have since returned them all and gone back to multiple remotes. The biggest drawback of all the multi-function ones is that you actually have to look down at the remote to push the buttons, if only to make sure that you are not doing somethng you don't want. This becomes even worse with the touch screen ones where you definitely have to look because you have no tactile feed back at all.
So, i returned my last attempt and spent $5 at crate and barrel for a basket that sits on my coffee table, now i just grab the remote i need.
Also there is the simple fact of how many are installed out there in the world. Think of how much you would have to spend to switch over one medium sized house. Afterwards you are saving money but your living room feels like the waiting room of your doctors office because of this harsh white light.
My Motorola V60 color (link goes to att wireless) will do exactly what you are asking, i press a button, say "dial" pause then say the numbers slowly and clearly. Works in all but really windy/noisey environments.
Many articles talking about this promotion have been saying both apple and pesi are figuring on a 10-20% redemption rate...which is actually really optimistic as these things go.
This program will let you copy music back from the ipod to your computer, put the installer on to your ipod, now you can copy where you wish. This was with a quick search of the Window portion of Version Tracker. There was also apps to sync contacts in the generic search.
Apple made it only slightly difficult to pull music off of the ipod. There are many apps for OSX already to do this, heck, you can do it manually by doing a find in OSX with the "is invisible" flag set.
It is only a matter of time before there are more options for the Windows world
Do you have anywhere that i can see these suspension systems on line? I am currently working on a sand rail, and i am relatively unhappy with the standard coil over spring/gas shock solutions, not for any good technical reason, but mostly because i know how to do those, and i am building this to try and do things i have not done before.
i think it might technically be fraud.
It is the same girls face photoshopped on to two different people's body's
may be Fark had a contest?
I am no huge propenant of "why can't we all get along", but whenever i see another compnay come out with any sort of decent product, my first thought is not "oh this will knock xyz product from the top spot" but "oh good, now xyz product is also going to have to improve".
This is how our market works (overly simplified, yes). If there was no competition, you would have no reason to improve your product, whatever you came out with would be the only choice.
So instead of constantly assuming something is going to "kill" another product. Just buy the one you like, that has the features you need, make the trade off for the features the other has that the one you are buying doesn't. Most importantly, realize, that once a product has a significant market share, and backing by the company that makes it (a nod to netscape here) it is not going away.
Just keep hoping that there IS someone to compete with apple for the hard drive mp3 market, because if not, then Apple will truly become the "microsoft of music" with all the problems attached to that.
What about a 1gig @ $99 and a 2gig @$149?
how else could i have a pack of cigarretes, a microwave dinner and a video game delivered to me at 3am?
this was a completely informal survey based on the "info cards" at my local electronics store.
the biggest problem seems to be that none of them would pass the "girfriend test", except the $900 tivo/dvdr from pioneer.
My girfriend and i are both cellular only (29-34 demographic).We have a land line, the tivo and directv are hooked up to it, i keep an old rotary phone in the closet though just in case (1.99 at the thrift store).