Factories are great things. They make things. Farms are great things. They grow things. Put them together and you something ugly. I have no spiritual objection to cloning, but I question the wisdom of further mucking up our Food Works. I can reinstall my OS, I cannot re-install me. I'd like to move much more cautiously and intelligently than has been our record when it comes to food than we have with our gadgets and tools. Monocultures are bad. Putting all the eggs in one basket so to speak. We are rapidly narrowing our diet in terms of the species of the things we eat to our detriment. Cloning animals seems like the next step down a bad path to me.
If you have six kids in school, this might be just the thing you need. I don't have any kids that I'm aware of, but friends do and their kids fight for PC time for papers and projects. I've donated old PCs from to to folks for just this reason. And your kid learns a Linux distro as well as Windows / Mac at school.
Between texting, eating, putting on makeup, smoking, futzing with the radio, surfing the Internet for the nearest Burger Doodle, and so many other things to do in the car, driving is SUCH a distraction.
This seems like the grownup, nerdy version of "What if every time I leave the room it blinks out of existence?" Scientific laws are useful uber-assumptions that allow further research. Treat gravity as a given and start fuddling around with bending light, for instance. Without this concept we might as well speculate if its turtles all the way down or one turtle and it flies.
Look! Lint!
This kind of archiving would be nigh impossible for some businesses, no matter how heavily regulated. Its partially a matter of resource allocation. I do a nightly backup and a monthly backup for an organization that deals with kids, medical records, and large donations (i.e. heavily scrutinized). 80 percent + of donations must be spent on program services, so I have a limited budget. If something is written and deleted betwixt the monthly backup and the earliest nightly, its gone. There's no practical way for me to keep all that data on hand. I recycle the backup tapes and burn DVDs. If I bought enough tapes to keep an independent backup of each day's activity, there'd be no room in my office for me. Nor do I want to spend money on some kind of IM tracker. If I did, those kids with medical conditions would suffer. Sorry lawyers, you'll have keep doing things the ol' fashioned way
I buy a lot of computers for work. I work at a charity that has a nifty agreement with Dell that could save me a ton of money. But I stopped buying Dell computers a few years back because I could not get a consistent product from them. I would buy 10 identical computers, open them up and find a zillion different parts from a zillion manufacturers in them. This drives me crazy. I heard tell that Dell was addressing this, but haven't followed up. I switched to Acer a few years back. If Dell wants to sell me computers again they need A. a guarantee that the sub-contracted bits inside are of a consistent quality, and B. a non-Vista option.
The only folks I know that still have a land line are people who have kids old enough to use the phone but too young for a cell phone, or people who live in places without service by accident of geography. 'Cell' service is (slowly) improving. I no longer have to walk up to the street to use my phone at my folks house in hilly Pittsburgh. I reckon before long personal land lines will be like Barney DVDs, something that disappears from the home when the kids get old enough.
Amen.
I liked the first 2 KOTORs because of the immersion and the story. I doubt I'll immerse very well with aNaK1nlol_w0ot! bouncing by claiming "wookies are teh gay!"
Those of us that have to install Office on umpteen computers would benefit from a more flexible distro. Especially if there isn't a nerd handy on site to go around tweaking the installs. Office has it problems, but makes its money off of enterprise distributions. Why not make that a better selling point? I use Open Office at home, but can't roll it out at work for a variety of reasons (proprietary Access database mostly). I'd like to have some of the man hours back I lost hiding Clippy, mapping to Templates, etc...
As resident IT guy for kith and kin, I get asked about this all the time. And frankly, unless I happened to have payed attention recently, I can't really give a straight answer. I have a job, a girlfriend, a cat, and other stuff to do. Intel had it easy with the Pentiums, higher numbers (Roman numerals and price) were better. Now, as has been correctly pointed out here, it's more complex. They really need to return to the simpler format for regular PC buyers. Something like MyIntel 1,2,3,etc... to market chips for the folks and ProIntel for the widget fiddlers among us who Need to Know.
At some point, if they want me to keep buying new video cards, they are going to have to upgrade my eyes. Elder Scrolls V will look better than Christmas morning; but watching movies in the theater will be all choppy and hard to hear. And setting up SLi will be even more painful than it was the first time.
Well in the US, it would be helpful to have legislators at least somewhat familiar with the underlying technology of the things they are legislating. That may not happen until some younger blood gets elected. Old men in suits may have plenty of gravitas, but have their assistants print off their e-mails every day. It's another example of what gets you elected is often at odds with what is required to govern.
I tend to be a technological rainbow chaser when it come to video cards. Hopefully the day will come where I get a decently priced card that will run Oblivion (or other next-gen games) OK. I mean, our eye are only so good, at one point will video cards be good enough that no further major innovations are necessary? Bet it won't be long.
The number one thing preventing a Mozilla e-mail client from doing what it's web client is doing is its inability to interface with an Exchange server. Like it or not, Exchange is the standard in most workplaces these days and that isn't likely to change any time soon for a variety of good reasons. I can use Firefox at work, I can't use Thunderbird.
Sigh, guess I'll be sacrificing my own health, hygeine, career, love life, and 'round the house duties in the coming weeks in favor of the same for a set of pixilated poppets. Why would I do this? SIMS express a greater range of emotions and reward me better than my girlfriend, family, co-workers, and neighborhood police tend to do. I like rewards. Ring the bell Pavlov, its salivating time!
As a Windows based office wonk, I've been waiting for this for a loooong time. The beta worked nicely on my test machine. although I'm going to hold off implementation for a while to see what befalls my fellow geeks. I've found installing stuff from Microsoft is like being in the infantry, you're better off letting the other guy go first.
If only it could work with Exchange in a Networked environment. I am trapped by circumstance into hosting my organization's e-mail with Exchange on the server side and Outlook clients.
With RFID on the shipping containers of all of Wal Mart's suppliers and with all the middlemen employing RFID methods of tracking inventory, Wal Mart will evenutually hope to reduce the cost from manuafacturer to the shelf by eliminating or lessening the need for human employees. I'd be interested to see what numbers Wal Mart figures they spend now on Inventory control compared to what they expect to save after implementing RFID.
Sometimes games, great games even, are taken from politically charged source material. The evil Haitians of Vice City invoke political considerations, as do all the recent spate of Iraq War spin-offs. Its inevitable. Also, common gaming themes like violence, sex, and the rest of the usual suspects invoke politics. My question is, so what? Politics happens.
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Factories are great things. They make things. Farms are great things. They grow things. Put them together and you something ugly. I have no spiritual objection to cloning, but I question the wisdom of further mucking up our Food Works. I can reinstall my OS, I cannot re-install me. I'd like to move much more cautiously and intelligently than has been our record when it comes to food than we have with our gadgets and tools. Monocultures are bad. Putting all the eggs in one basket so to speak. We are rapidly narrowing our diet in terms of the species of the things we eat to our detriment. Cloning animals seems like the next step down a bad path to me.
If you have six kids in school, this might be just the thing you need. I don't have any kids that I'm aware of, but friends do and their kids fight for PC time for papers and projects. I've donated old PCs from to to folks for just this reason. And your kid learns a Linux distro as well as Windows / Mac at school.
Between texting, eating, putting on makeup, smoking, futzing with the radio, surfing the Internet for the nearest Burger Doodle, and so many other things to do in the car, driving is SUCH a distraction.
This seems like the grownup, nerdy version of "What if every time I leave the room it blinks out of existence?" Scientific laws are useful uber-assumptions that allow further research. Treat gravity as a given and start fuddling around with bending light, for instance. Without this concept we might as well speculate if its turtles all the way down or one turtle and it flies. Look! Lint!
This kind of archiving would be nigh impossible for some businesses, no matter how heavily regulated. Its partially a matter of resource allocation. I do a nightly backup and a monthly backup for an organization that deals with kids, medical records, and large donations (i.e. heavily scrutinized). 80 percent + of donations must be spent on program services, so I have a limited budget. If something is written and deleted betwixt the monthly backup and the earliest nightly, its gone. There's no practical way for me to keep all that data on hand. I recycle the backup tapes and burn DVDs. If I bought enough tapes to keep an independent backup of each day's activity, there'd be no room in my office for me. Nor do I want to spend money on some kind of IM tracker. If I did, those kids with medical conditions would suffer. Sorry lawyers, you'll have keep doing things the ol' fashioned way
I buy a lot of computers for work. I work at a charity that has a nifty agreement with Dell that could save me a ton of money. But I stopped buying Dell computers a few years back because I could not get a consistent product from them. I would buy 10 identical computers, open them up and find a zillion different parts from a zillion manufacturers in them. This drives me crazy. I heard tell that Dell was addressing this, but haven't followed up. I switched to Acer a few years back. If Dell wants to sell me computers again they need A. a guarantee that the sub-contracted bits inside are of a consistent quality, and B. a non-Vista option.
The only folks I know that still have a land line are people who have kids old enough to use the phone but too young for a cell phone, or people who live in places without service by accident of geography. 'Cell' service is (slowly) improving. I no longer have to walk up to the street to use my phone at my folks house in hilly Pittsburgh. I reckon before long personal land lines will be like Barney DVDs, something that disappears from the home when the kids get old enough.
Amen. I liked the first 2 KOTORs because of the immersion and the story. I doubt I'll immerse very well with aNaK1nlol_w0ot! bouncing by claiming "wookies are teh gay!"
Those of us that have to install Office on umpteen computers would benefit from a more flexible distro. Especially if there isn't a nerd handy on site to go around tweaking the installs. Office has it problems, but makes its money off of enterprise distributions. Why not make that a better selling point? I use Open Office at home, but can't roll it out at work for a variety of reasons (proprietary Access database mostly). I'd like to have some of the man hours back I lost hiding Clippy, mapping to Templates, etc...
As resident IT guy for kith and kin, I get asked about this all the time. And frankly, unless I happened to have payed attention recently, I can't really give a straight answer. I have a job, a girlfriend, a cat, and other stuff to do. Intel had it easy with the Pentiums, higher numbers (Roman numerals and price) were better. Now, as has been correctly pointed out here, it's more complex. They really need to return to the simpler format for regular PC buyers. Something like MyIntel 1,2,3,etc... to market chips for the folks and ProIntel for the widget fiddlers among us who Need to Know.
At some point, if they want me to keep buying new video cards, they are going to have to upgrade my eyes. Elder Scrolls V will look better than Christmas morning; but watching movies in the theater will be all choppy and hard to hear. And setting up SLi will be even more painful than it was the first time.
Well in the US, it would be helpful to have legislators at least somewhat familiar with the underlying technology of the things they are legislating. That may not happen until some younger blood gets elected. Old men in suits may have plenty of gravitas, but have their assistants print off their e-mails every day. It's another example of what gets you elected is often at odds with what is required to govern.
will have to blow out the candles TWICE when it's their tenth anniversary
We'll have a Jedi Senator years before we'll have an atheist one.
I tend to be a technological rainbow chaser when it come to video cards. Hopefully the day will come where I get a decently priced card that will run Oblivion (or other next-gen games) OK. I mean, our eye are only so good, at one point will video cards be good enough that no further major innovations are necessary? Bet it won't be long.
The number one thing preventing a Mozilla e-mail client from doing what it's web client is doing is its inability to interface with an Exchange server. Like it or not, Exchange is the standard in most workplaces these days and that isn't likely to change any time soon for a variety of good reasons. I can use Firefox at work, I can't use Thunderbird.
Now Linux can legally see most Van Diesel movies!
Sigh, guess I'll be sacrificing my own health, hygeine, career, love life, and 'round the house duties in the coming weeks in favor of the same for a set of pixilated poppets. Why would I do this? SIMS express a greater range of emotions and reward me better than my girlfriend, family, co-workers, and neighborhood police tend to do. I like rewards. Ring the bell Pavlov, its salivating time!
As a Windows based office wonk, I've been waiting for this for a loooong time. The beta worked nicely on my test machine. although I'm going to hold off implementation for a while to see what befalls my fellow geeks. I've found installing stuff from Microsoft is like being in the infantry, you're better off letting the other guy go first.
Spolier! The Earth gets blown up. I hope this movie rocks. DNA is a man underappreciated in the mainstream.
I've seen everything I feel like I needed to see anyways.
If only it could work with Exchange in a Networked environment. I am trapped by circumstance into hosting my organization's e-mail with Exchange on the server side and Outlook clients.
With RFID on the shipping containers of all of Wal Mart's suppliers and with all the middlemen employing RFID methods of tracking inventory, Wal Mart will evenutually hope to reduce the cost from manuafacturer to the shelf by eliminating or lessening the need for human employees. I'd be interested to see what numbers Wal Mart figures they spend now on Inventory control compared to what they expect to save after implementing RFID.
Sometimes games, great games even, are taken from politically charged source material. The evil Haitians of Vice City invoke political considerations, as do all the recent spate of Iraq War spin-offs. Its inevitable. Also, common gaming themes like violence, sex, and the rest of the usual suspects invoke politics. My question is, so what? Politics happens.
Ah BASIC, the first computer language to make me cry and swear at my Commodore 64.