Did they break the law? The quantum answer would seem to be "yes & no";)
To each their own, but I'm totally trackball
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My uses are mainly audio/video creation/manipulation & general apps like word processing, email & browser use. I have used a trackball for years and would never go back...I would also never surrender the desk space I've reclaimed by only needing the trackball's small footprint. That said, >80% of what I do is handled by keyboard shortcuts, but when the GUI must be dealt with, I find the trackball immeasurably more useful....Just one geezer's opinion. I too am a bit anxious at the dwindling popularity of the trackball. The time to stockpile may be fast approaching.:)
Is it just coincidence that the 'sanctity of email privacy' precedent is being established at the same time there's growing attention to the practice of certain parties in the executive branch of the us gvt using non government mailservers (like partisan RNC email systems) to possibly sidestep public record retention laws?
When I clicked on the link, I got a picture of a Monkey with the comment "We can't believe you clicked this"!
That pretty much sealed the deal for me.:D
It could have been some random drunk who let his mobile phone overheat & spontaneously combusted, taking the farmhouse with him. Let's not rush to judgement until we hear what CSI-Smallville has to say.
Is this item aimed at the "average person"? I'm not so sure. Much as the original Mac was more potential than performance in it's initial, underpowered incarnation, the iPhone may be brilliant in the new directions it heralds at least as much as for what the first gen will do out of the box - especially considering the existing mobile network & service infrastructures availble to it. I see it as potentially evolutionary, but I won't be standing in line to buy one. I'll follow it's progress closely and may jump on board in a few generations. I'll also be curious to see how this affects the rest of the mobile phone ecostructure.
I too wondered why "big science" would try to come up with a way to create cattle that can still be fed 'cannibal chow' without getting sick, instead of just changing the feed to something healthy, when I realised there are no IP licensing rights for natural, healthy cattle. This 'super cow' is surely patentable:(
My other disappointment is that so much time & resourcefulness was spent on this rather than a way to prevent prion diease from taking it's toll on the untold people who have eaten infected 'industrial-beef' through fast food & other sources but won't show symptoms for many years.
I'm not saying it's NOT a pipe dream, but it kind of reminds me of the early days of aviation when people were actually trying to find a business model. Lots of new technologies were tried out to lure rich travellers in search of novelty. Eventually, the more practical ideas trickled down to the 'flying buses' most travellers endure.
Can someone lure enough big-budget thrill seekers to get such an unlikely endeavor off the ground (for lack of a better term)? I'd like to believe people haven't stopped thinking big. Eventually, one of these bold (crazy?) ideas could actually work.
Maybe if the powers behind the format had put aside their petty squabbling and released a single format, they could have devoted their energy to finding a market for the format. Now they're busy battling each other for market share, yet this competition doesn't seem to be benefitting consumers. By the time they have a format inexpensive & useful enough, a new format will have likely come along & crptured the public's attention anyway.
HD is not a selling point. It may be useful as a marketing term. I hear many stories - and know some firsthand - of people who connect their flatscreen to a DVD or SD cable and think they have HD. Most people don't know the difference & can't be bothered to learn. Until their is one high capacity disc format, and it's affordable enough to compete against hard drives for storage or flash memory for portability, the manufacturers are wasting their time - and ours. Lack of DRM alone won't sell this.
Forget Vista & OSX, what the world is clearly clamoring for is the Hollywood interface! I can just see my parents, aunts & uncles gesturing their way through powerball.com or the weather channel's site. And wouldn't ebay be so much easier if you could just shout your bid at the computer?;D
Any tool that Cruise, Goldblum or Sutherland can use to save the world better be good enough for my Grandma!
Seriously, despite the cracks about the author's site being designed on notepad, clean & simple - however unsexy - is almost always preferable. The less icing you have to cut through, the quicker you get to the cake.
Actually, I think the (disputed) anniversary is of audio transmission via radio. Not radio broadcasting per se. Fessenden wasn't doing regular scheduled broadcasts at the time, he was just assembling the apparatus to do so and testing it out. I believe there is some dispute as to the 12/24/1906 event. It's been claimed there are no records of the transmission, logs of the reception, or any subsequent coverage in the press regarding the event at the time. It's also claimed that the incident wasn't even mentioned until the 1930s. Check out this piece from Radio World online http://rwonline.com/pages/s.0106/t.502.html
Still, as to the original point, there's little 20th century technology that doesn't have Tesla's fingerprints on it somewhere... he really jumpstarted a lot of new avenues of discovery.
Just because something is a good idea is no guarantee that the general public will adopt it. It's been my observation that most people would rather be sold crap than actively seek out superior alternatives. Then they slam the better idea as 'elitist':P
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Miss a car payment? On-Star can just 'brick' your car. "Where do you think YOU'RE going, deadbeat?" :P
Did they break the law? The quantum answer would seem to be "yes & no" ;)
My uses are mainly audio/video creation/manipulation & general apps like word processing, email & browser use. I have used a trackball for years and would never go back ...I would also never surrender the desk space I've reclaimed by only needing the trackball's small footprint. ...Just one geezer's opinion. :)
That said, >80% of what I do is handled by keyboard shortcuts, but when the GUI must be dealt with, I find the trackball immeasurably more useful.
I too am a bit anxious at the dwindling popularity of the trackball. The time to stockpile may be fast approaching.
Is it just coincidence that the 'sanctity of email privacy' precedent is being established at the same time there's growing attention to the practice of certain parties in the executive branch of the us gvt using non government mailservers (like partisan RNC email systems) to possibly sidestep public record retention laws?
So much for my planned Edison/hip hop mashup... I always thought 'Mary had a little lamb' had potential as 'geezer-rap'....
...about the 24 hour convenience store - the punchline being "not IN A ROW!".... I suspect Apple will finesse their way out of this :)
When I clicked on the link, I got a picture of a Monkey with the comment "We can't believe you clicked this"! That pretty much sealed the deal for me. :D
It could have been some random drunk who let his mobile phone overheat & spontaneously combusted, taking the farmhouse with him.
Let's not rush to judgement until we hear what CSI-Smallville has to say.
Is this item aimed at the "average person"? I'm not so sure. Much as the original Mac was more potential than performance in it's initial, underpowered incarnation, the iPhone may be brilliant in the new directions it heralds at least as much as for what the first gen will do out of the box - especially considering the existing mobile network & service infrastructures availble to it. I see it as potentially evolutionary, but I won't be standing in line to buy one. I'll follow it's progress closely and may jump on board in a few generations. I'll also be curious to see how this affects the rest of the mobile phone ecostructure.
I too wondered why "big science" would try to come up with a way to create cattle that can still be fed 'cannibal chow' without getting sick, instead of just changing the feed to something healthy, when I realised there are no IP licensing rights for natural, healthy cattle. This 'super cow' is surely patentable :(
My other disappointment is that so much time & resourcefulness was spent on this rather than a way to prevent prion diease from taking it's toll on the untold people who have eaten infected 'industrial-beef' through fast food & other sources but won't show symptoms for many years.
I'm not saying it's NOT a pipe dream, but it kind of reminds me of the early days of aviation when people were actually trying to find a business model. Lots of new technologies were tried out to lure rich travellers in search of novelty. Eventually, the more practical ideas trickled down to the 'flying buses' most travellers endure.
Can someone lure enough big-budget thrill seekers to get such an unlikely endeavor off the ground (for lack of a better term)? I'd like to believe people haven't stopped thinking big. Eventually, one of these bold (crazy?) ideas could actually work.
Maybe if the powers behind the format had put aside their petty squabbling and released a single format, they could have devoted their energy to finding a market for the format. Now they're busy battling each other for market share, yet this competition doesn't seem to be benefitting consumers. By the time they have a format inexpensive & useful enough, a new format will have likely come along & crptured the public's attention anyway.
HD is not a selling point. It may be useful as a marketing term. I hear many stories - and know some firsthand - of people who connect their flatscreen to a DVD or SD cable and think they have HD. Most people don't know the difference & can't be bothered to learn. Until their is one high capacity disc format, and it's affordable enough to compete against hard drives for storage or flash memory for portability, the manufacturers are wasting their time - and ours. Lack of DRM alone won't sell this.
Forget Vista & OSX, what the world is clearly clamoring for is the Hollywood interface! I can just see my parents, aunts & uncles gesturing their way through powerball.com or the weather channel's site. And wouldn't ebay be so much easier if you could just shout your bid at the computer? ;D
Any tool that Cruise, Goldblum or Sutherland can use to save the world better be good enough for my Grandma!
Seriously, despite the cracks about the author's site being designed on notepad, clean & simple - however unsexy - is almost always preferable. The less icing you have to cut through, the quicker you get to the cake.
Actually, I think the (disputed) anniversary is of audio transmission via radio. Not radio broadcasting per se. Fessenden wasn't doing regular scheduled broadcasts at the time, he was just assembling the apparatus to do so and testing it out. I believe there is some dispute as to the 12/24/1906 event. It's been claimed there are no records of the transmission, logs of the reception, or any subsequent coverage in the press regarding the event at the time. It's also claimed that the incident wasn't even mentioned until the 1930s. Check out this piece from Radio World online http://rwonline.com/pages/s.0106/t.502.html Still, as to the original point, there's little 20th century technology that doesn't have Tesla's fingerprints on it somewhere... he really jumpstarted a lot of new avenues of discovery.
Just because something is a good idea is no guarantee that the general public will adopt it. It's been my observation that most people would rather be sold crap than actively seek out superior alternatives. :P
Then they slam the better idea as 'elitist'