There was a story some time ago about Apple patenting small, "hidden" in the screen cameras as a means of correcting eye contact issue that exists currently in videoconferences.
Which really strikes me as another example of why patent system is badly broken in the US. Even I toyed some time ago with an idea of using small sensor / optical arrangement that minimizes size of the "camera", visible obstruction, so it can be placed in front of the screen without being too irritating. Hiding it between the pixels of LCD screen, when you have good enough manufacturing, seems to be just...a straightforward progression.
IMs - Email for those who don't realize nothing they do is so important that someone else has to know/answer RIGHT NOW!@%!@%!@%!@%@#^@#^! I'm sure you could find being more wrong very hard.
IM is, on the one hand, quite instant in delivery, like voice. But, and here's where you are phenomenally wrong, it doesn't need immediate attention. It will be there when you feel like answering. Or not answering - because it's for things that aren't so important or so complex as the ones discussed in e-mails. Just one quick short message.
Luckily I'm dealing with intelligent people who mostly communicate with me via IM/sms, because they know that a) voice communication is only for extremely urgent or important things (and as usual method of communication for very few of people close to me) or b) know that mail is mostly for important ones.
Anyway, the main reason I'm asking is that one ubershitty IM network from my place ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadu-Gadu ) claims they were the first in space / on the ISS. While that is doubtful in itself (whether Roscosmos or NASA would allow this kind of software, whether it would connect), finding direct earlier example would be useful (and other than text communication via pocket radio)
Yeah, I wonder what kind of IM they are using, if any (I know there were some sessions with Packet Radio and its "IM" functionality, though I'm not sure if that counts)
Nah, I'm just laughing from my comfy place across the Pond.
Interesting that you didn't seem to take note of this (EN is my 3rd language after all, I'm rather horrible at it). Makes me really wonder about your daily environment...
For starters, being Christian would suggest following the basic teachings coming from Jesus of Nazareth. Eschewing material wealth is among the main ones. That eliminates 99% of supposed adherents.
More generally, building you church inside you as a spiritual concept and not as a wealthy organisation also seems to be one. Heck, and I can't exactly see how supporting any wars fits, too...
So your solution is to not let anything gain enough power to unfairly manipulate the market for their benefit? I can agree with that. How pray tell can we get to such an Utopia?
It's even more amazing then you think; at certain point, thanks to your hard work over the years, you are one of the very few entities being able to afford expensive lawyers and long legal case!
Of course there's plenty of time. But that's OK, after all the funds going towards space exploration are almost negligible on the scale of the world economy. But doing this little things, practicing, gaining knowledge will prove fruitful.
So no, this isn't like putting a newborn on a treadmill. It's like wiping his ass from time to time.
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There was a story some time ago about Apple patenting small, "hidden" in the screen cameras as a means of correcting eye contact issue that exists currently in videoconferences.
Which really strikes me as another example of why patent system is badly broken in the US. Even I toyed some time ago with an idea of using small sensor / optical arrangement that minimizes size of the "camera", visible obstruction, so it can be placed in front of the screen without being too irritating. Hiding it between the pixels of LCD screen, when you have good enough manufacturing, seems to be just...a straightforward progression.
Who then?...
IMs - Email for those who don't realize nothing they do is so important that someone else has to know/answer RIGHT NOW!@%!@%!@%!@%@#^@#^!
I'm sure you could find being more wrong very hard.
IM is, on the one hand, quite instant in delivery, like voice. But, and here's where you are phenomenally wrong, it doesn't need immediate attention. It will be there when you feel like answering. Or not answering - because it's for things that aren't so important or so complex as the ones discussed in e-mails. Just one quick short message.
Luckily I'm dealing with intelligent people who mostly communicate with me via IM/sms, because they know that a) voice communication is only for extremely urgent or important things (and as usual method of communication for very few of people close to me) or b) know that mail is mostly for important ones.
Anyway, the main reason I'm asking is that one ubershitty IM network from my place ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadu-Gadu ) claims they were the first in space / on the ISS. While that is doubtful in itself (whether Roscosmos or NASA would allow this kind of software, whether it would connect), finding direct earlier example would be useful (and other than text communication via pocket radio)
The question then is why use Outlook for such an awkward, for that tool, setup?
Familiarization with it and therefore minimizing training needs? Hm, I guess Orion might use webmail (or generally web 2.0) UI...
...not quite realtime or important?
Yeah, I wonder what kind of IM they are using, if any (I know there were some sessions with Packet Radio and its "IM" functionality, though I'm not sure if that counts)
PS. Thinkpads aren't ordinary laptops! ;)
Hm, I wouldn't expect reply such as yours in response to a post made by BadAnalogyGuy ;)
Exactly, that's the big news here - CEO actually being held accountable at the least for his grave failure in preventing fraud.
Now, where we could have applied this in recent year...
Nah, I'm just laughing from my comfy place across the Pond.
Interesting that you didn't seem to take note of this (EN is my 3rd language after all, I'm rather horrible at it). Makes me really wonder about your daily environment...
...and yet they are still somewhat detached, don't you agree?
Nothing new or unexpected really, every new cult (also those we call major religions now) is like that at the beginning.
Just look around you (and a little further than your comfy backyard), see what kind of world he supposedly created.
For starters, being Christian would suggest following the basic teachings coming from Jesus of Nazareth. Eschewing material wealth is among the main ones. That eliminates 99% of supposed adherents.
More generally, building you church inside you as a spiritual concept and not as a wealthy organisation also seems to be one. Heck, and I can't exactly see how supporting any wars fits, too...
"There is no central regulation in the legal system...there is the law, and that's it."
^uhm, yeah, and that's why people shake their heads when hearing logic of free market evangelists :)
Oh, I see...
But...why is that? Could it be because of...central regulations?
So your solution is to not let anything gain enough power to unfairly manipulate the market for their benefit? I can agree with that. How pray tell can we get to such an Utopia?
More of free market!!!
It's even more amazing then you think; at certain point, thanks to your hard work over the years, you are one of the very few entities being able to afford expensive lawyers and long legal case!
Oh, so you want to force producers by regulation to do something in this "free market" of yours, I see...
The word you were looking for is "oligarchy", not socialism.
I expect it to stop just after calling of Soviet Union or North Korea "socialist" (while totally ignoring, say, Nordic countries) stops.
Or it might be that people want to take away something from watching a movie. There's less chance of that if it can't even surprise you...
How is that not an assistance? They try to control their chosen deity to perform tricks for them, after all (there's no humility in that BTW)
Of course there's plenty of time. But that's OK, after all the funds going towards space exploration are almost negligible on the scale of the world economy. But doing this little things, practicing, gaining knowledge will prove fruitful.
So no, this isn't like putting a newborn on a treadmill. It's like wiping his ass from time to time.
Just the iPods need exorcisms.
Same God accepting ethnics cleansing, masochism as a way of salvation and supposedly communicating in extremely obscure ways? Yeah, I can see that...
I would say that's a natural property of the life that survives ;p
"Needed" new phones just because the contract was ending? There's something very wrong with that...