" 1/3 of all auto accidents involve people who test positive for marijuana use."
Since marijuana users continue to test positive for @ 30 days after use, what this really means is that 1/3 of all auto accidents involve people who smoke pot, but may or may not have been high during the accident.
" It doesn't really go into who actually advertises on spyware or which networks supply the ads."
No it lists investors. From what I see it is a bunch of venture capitol companies; companies that provide money to startup companies in exchange for a stake in the profits. It is pretty much the standard business model for a lot of startups. It is a lot easier to get money from venture capitolists than banks. In exchange you give up some (often most) ownership in the product.
" The reason that Amazon and Microsoft get so much publicity is because their patents are often not really patents, or they're attempting to patent something that shouldn't be patented."
Exactly! If you look at the list, the top companies are all hardware companies. That is what patents are for, hardware. The problem with Microsoft and Amazon is that they are software and service companies. There is no hardware involved. A patent for software that responds differently to a single click and a double click is preposterous. Now if it was a piece of hardware that generated a different signal based on whether it was clicked once or twice, that would be reasonable to patent, but you would patent the circuit design, not the concept.
but when I grew up everyone was a gamer. I played dominos with my grandmother. I played Scrabble with my aunt - a librarian. I played cards with everyone I knew. I played Chess with my best friend. I played Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and even doctor with the girl down the street. When I was young I would watch as my parents got together with other couples for Forty-Two tournaments. In college we had marathon Dungeons and Dragons games. Even today I am just as happy playing cards with friends as I am playing online. Maybe happier, the conversation is better.
What is it about mainstream culture that has made entertainment something you watch rather than participate in. Isn't it more likely that sports fans are the ones that are not execising, going to church and voting. "Can't right now babe, the game is on." OK that is probably a personal bias since I don't watch sports. Still I do not get this attitude that gaming is somehow bad for you. Where did it come from?
I don't get it. Laura Croft is a stereo type and Duke Nukem isn't? C'mon people, almost all the male characters in games are steroid pumped jocks. What's worse most of them are blond haired blue eyed Aryan types. Unless you are playing an RPG and playing a barbarian or a dwarf you are playing a buffed character. If you are playing barbarian or dwarf the female is as un-buff as the male. Sounds like equal opportunity to me.
"In this case, they're using technology meant to secure content. It just shows that the more bells and whistles you add to the technology, the more you open doors for the bad guys,"
To me this just proves that trusted computing is a bad deal. The more control you take away from the end user, the more control you give to the people who would hurt you.
Sounds like cannon fodder for the anti violent game movement. From the article:
"I'd play it, then walk out into the office corridor and realize I was looking at my co-workers as potential targets," said Taylor. "I was so used to killing anything that moved."
and
"So later, after you put down that controller, you're walking around your apartment, or going to the store in your car... and suddenly you do something similar, something that trips an 'opportunism' wire in your brain."
I don't buy it. I do not have any problem distinguishing between reality and fantasy. My behavior in games, and I play a lot of them, does not leak into my real world.
"I would very much like to buy organically grown, chemical and gmo free vegetables (which my grandfather was able to buy when he was my age), but because those have become yuppie foods, they're priced out of my price range."
"Scroll to any random paragraph in the essay and you'll find something worth expounding on."
OK I had to try this. Here is the random paragraph:
"The Microsoft Gorilla, on the other hand, cannot be trained. Instead, you must keep rephrasing your directions until the MS Gorilla can comprehend them. He consumes both front seats, lowering the mileage of your car, and blocking most of your view. Though he sounds like a bad deal, MS Gorilla is actually extremely popular, because he looks impressive, drives aggressively, and keeps his mouth shut. If you speak in his limited vocabulary, he will take you Where You Want To Go Today... especially if he can plow monkeys off the intervening road. However, if you touch anything on the dashboard, or try to haggle with him over the exact route, he may become irritated and casually drive your car into a telephone pole. People learn to not argue."
WOW! What a great image. It does a great job of describing Microsoft's OS too. In fact that is why I don't care for Microsoft. I like to fiddle with the dashboard. I'm always changing the radio station or adjusting the temperature.
"This takes energy to do, at least as much energy as you get back by using the hydrogen."
Actually this is not exactly true. It woud be true of simle compounds like water, but the most commonly suggested source of hydrogen is to knock a hydrogen atom off of a complex hydrocarbon. The preferred hydrocarbon is natural gas. Since Russia sits on the worlds larges supply of natural gas, they would become the new OPEC (HPEC?) of a hydrogen energy dependant world.
Here is a related article about people loosing their jobs because of what they have posted to blogs. It raises interesting questions about freedom of speech.
Actually according to the article "Blog creators were likely to be young, well-educated, net-savvy males with good incomes and college educations, the survey found." There are not that many teens out there that have "good incomes and college educations."
Interestingly the survey also found that while most blogs are started by men, women are more likely to continue their blogging long term.
"IOW, if I pull up the Binoculars from my window seat on the plane (yes, I'm amused easily), it would be great to tell what city or natural feature I'm currently speeding past."
One of the things I really like when I trvel on CSA is a display on the plane that maps our route, gives a list of nearby cities and landmarks, the outside temperature, air speed, ground speed, time in the air and estimated time to arrival. Of course it is a 12 hour flight to the Czech Republic, so I am sure this releaves the flight crew from constantly answering questions, but I still miss it on domestic flights. When I am looking at a city on the ground, I would love to know which city that is.
From the article:
"I think Outlook leaves a lot of room for a fast competitor," said a Mozilla volunteer involved in the project, who asked not to be named."
Boy isn't that the truth. I'm glad to see that I am not the only one who thinks that MS Office 2003 is bloated and slow. I actually leave outlook off now unless I know I have a meeting or something. It puts too high a load on my laptop. I launch it, use it, then close it.
" Why do you need a calendar, I was under the impression Outlook was used 99% of the time as a mail client."
Corporate america is why. When I work I have to be able to send people at diverse locations meeting requests. Outlook lets me connect to their calendar and see when they are free so I do not schedule the meeting at a bad time. It lets me send the request and when people respond it updates everyones schedule to show who has accepted. It let's people suggest an alternative time or location if the original does not work. It then reminds me before the meeting so I can show up on time and be prepared. For people who have to collaborate in large organisations these are vital functions.
"Obviously, Microsoft bundling applications with their dominant operating system gives them a strong advantage over would-be competitors, but should we really prohibit them from shipping applications with it?"
Yes! I can remeber far enough back to when there was only one phone company in the US. Imagine with me if that were still the case. Now also imagine that the only way they sold phone service was bundled with cable and internet. How many competing ISP's and Cable companies would there be? Would there even be a market for satelite television service?
In the last twenty plus years I have watched Microsoft lay waste to dozens of companies and markets. Stac Electronics comes quickly to mind. They pioneered disk compression in the days of DOS. When DOS 6.0 included disk compression (stolen from Stac) Stac went bankrupt. They sued and won, and Microsoft eventually bought the entire company, but all the other vendors who were in competition with Stac just went away.
"Do you also prohibit Apple from shipping apps with Mac OS X? Or Mandrakesoft with Mandrake? "
No! That is different because these companies do not own 98% of the desktops in the world. When ATT was broken up, they were forced to sell blocks of network bandwidth to competing companies at rates that would allow those companies to resell it to end users at cheaper prices than ATT. In other words ATT was forced to let competitors sell ATT's own bandwidth cheaper than ATT. Those are the kinds of extreme measures required to manage monopolies. Since the monoploly already has an unfair advantage, you have to give the competitors special rights the monopoly does not have.
"Obviously this is in the self drive car realm of probabilities, but hey, we might as well try."
That was the first thing I thought, "One step closer to self driving cars." Before we have cars that can drive themselves, it is vital that the cars can communicate with each other.
Yeah it runs Linux, but does it have any Power Management configured? I've never run linux on a laptop, but I have looked at the power management features and they looked intimidating to configure. I have also heard that things like suspend do not always work with laptops in Linux.
"It's nice to see The GIMP given some recognition, in that it is broadcasted as a replacement for Paint Shop Pro, which is IMHO fair to both programs. I'm glad they didn't say the same thing of Photoshop, which would have been altogether a bad move. "
Actually they did, in Table 4-2 Sample application survey. They list gimp as the only target for Adobe Photoshop 7.0 migration. I personally do not do a lot of graphic maniplulation, and do not use either of these applications so I cannot comment on how appropriate that is.
"so which, according to IBM, is teh leetest disto?"
I think the real answer is "because these books are developed by IBM there are some content limitations." IBM does a pretty good job of not participating in the distribution wars. In the section titled "1.6 Linux overview and distribution choices" the only mention of distributions by name is this sentance: "Some of the most well-known distributions include Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, etc." IBM has technology aliances with both Red Hat and SuSE so they cannot publicly endorse one in favor of the other. A quick search of the pdf showed that Red Hat was mentioned 110 times and SuSE was only mentioned 15 times. Debian and Mandrake were mentioned six and seven times respectivly. I doubt that really proves anything.
I wonder if this marks the beginning of the end of the anti-spyware industry. In the past when microsoft has entered a software industry, it has meant the end of the competition. I can see it now, the next patch of Windows will have hidden routines that only Microsofts spyware removal software can access that makes it the most efficient software available at removing syware. At the same time, other routines will cause the OS to lock up or crash when running a competitors software. I no time Microsoft will own the market.
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If Microsoft requires it doesn't that make it entry level?
Since marijuana users continue to test positive for @ 30 days after use, what this really means is that 1/3 of all auto accidents involve people who smoke pot, but may or may not have been high during the accident.
No it lists investors. From what I see it is a bunch of venture capitol companies; companies that provide money to startup companies in exchange for a stake in the profits. It is pretty much the standard business model for a lot of startups. It is a lot easier to get money from venture capitolists than banks. In exchange you give up some (often most) ownership in the product.
Exactly! If you look at the list, the top companies are all hardware companies. That is what patents are for, hardware. The problem with Microsoft and Amazon is that they are software and service companies. There is no hardware involved. A patent for software that responds differently to a single click and a double click is preposterous. Now if it was a piece of hardware that generated a different signal based on whether it was clicked once or twice, that would be reasonable to patent, but you would patent the circuit design, not the concept.
I hope you either kept it or sold it. Vintage pornography is very valuable and collectible.
What is it about mainstream culture that has made entertainment something you watch rather than participate in. Isn't it more likely that sports fans are the ones that are not execising, going to church and voting. "Can't right now babe, the game is on." OK that is probably a personal bias since I don't watch sports. Still I do not get this attitude that gaming is somehow bad for you. Where did it come from?
I don't get it. Laura Croft is a stereo type and Duke Nukem isn't? C'mon people, almost all the male characters in games are steroid pumped jocks. What's worse most of them are blond haired blue eyed Aryan types. Unless you are playing an RPG and playing a barbarian or a dwarf you are playing a buffed character. If you are playing barbarian or dwarf the female is as un-buff as the male. Sounds like equal opportunity to me.
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"In this case, they're using technology meant to secure content. It just shows that the more bells and whistles you add to the technology, the more you open doors for the bad guys,"
To me this just proves that trusted computing is a bad deal. The more control you take away from the end user, the more control you give to the people who would hurt you.
"I'd play it, then walk out into the office corridor and realize I was looking at my co-workers as potential targets," said Taylor. "I was so used to killing anything that moved."
and
"So later, after you put down that controller, you're walking around your apartment, or going to the store in your car ... and suddenly you do something similar, something that trips an 'opportunism' wire in your brain."
I don't buy it. I do not have any problem distinguishing between reality and fantasy. My behavior in games, and I play a lot of them, does not leak into my real world.
Plant a garden. That's what your grandmother did.
OK I had to try this. Here is the random paragraph:
"The Microsoft Gorilla, on the other hand, cannot be trained. Instead, you must keep rephrasing your directions until the MS Gorilla can comprehend them. He consumes both front seats, lowering the mileage of your car, and blocking most of your view. Though he sounds like a bad deal, MS Gorilla is actually extremely popular, because he looks impressive, drives aggressively, and keeps his mouth shut. If you speak in his limited vocabulary, he will take you Where You Want To Go Today ... especially if he can plow monkeys off the intervening road. However, if you touch anything on the dashboard, or try to haggle with him over the exact route, he may become irritated and casually drive your car into a telephone pole. People learn to not argue."
WOW! What a great image. It does a great job of describing Microsoft's OS too. In fact that is why I don't care for Microsoft. I like to fiddle with the dashboard. I'm always changing the radio station or adjusting the temperature.
Actually this is not exactly true. It woud be true of simle compounds like water, but the most commonly suggested source of hydrogen is to knock a hydrogen atom off of a complex hydrocarbon. The preferred hydrocarbon is natural gas. Since Russia sits on the worlds larges supply of natural gas, they would become the new OPEC (HPEC?) of a hydrogen energy dependant world.
Here is a related article about people loosing their jobs because of what they have posted to blogs. It raises interesting questions about freedom of speech.
Actually according to the article "Blog creators were likely to be young, well-educated, net-savvy males with good incomes and college educations, the survey found." There are not that many teens out there that have "good incomes and college educations."
Interestingly the survey also found that while most blogs are started by men, women are more likely to continue their blogging long term.
One of the things I really like when I trvel on CSA is a display on the plane that maps our route, gives a list of nearby cities and landmarks, the outside temperature, air speed, ground speed, time in the air and estimated time to arrival. Of course it is a 12 hour flight to the Czech Republic, so I am sure this releaves the flight crew from constantly answering questions, but I still miss it on domestic flights. When I am looking at a city on the ground, I would love to know which city that is.
-no calander sharing
-no contact sharing
-no sharepoint integration
-no office integration
-no PocketPC syncing
Conclusion: My company needs outlook."
I agree. It is not ready yet. However I looked at the roadmap and here is a list of planned features:
- Invitations - Guests will be alerted when events changed; responses automatically imported.
- Multiple People - Support for various calendar servers.
- Synchronization - Support for sync with mobile devices.
- Views - In-line editing for events in both list view and calendar view.
- Standalone Build - Full support; as feature complete and as stable as Calendar
I think with these features, I could make the switch."I think Outlook leaves a lot of room for a fast competitor," said a Mozilla volunteer involved in the project, who asked not to be named."
Boy isn't that the truth. I'm glad to see that I am not the only one who thinks that MS Office 2003 is bloated and slow. I actually leave outlook off now unless I know I have a meeting or something. It puts too high a load on my laptop. I launch it, use it, then close it.
Corporate america is why. When I work I have to be able to send people at diverse locations meeting requests. Outlook lets me connect to their calendar and see when they are free so I do not schedule the meeting at a bad time. It lets me send the request and when people respond it updates everyones schedule to show who has accepted. It let's people suggest an alternative time or location if the original does not work. It then reminds me before the meeting so I can show up on time and be prepared. For people who have to collaborate in large organisations these are vital functions.
Yes! I can remeber far enough back to when there was only one phone company in the US. Imagine with me if that were still the case. Now also imagine that the only way they sold phone service was bundled with cable and internet. How many competing ISP's and Cable companies would there be? Would there even be a market for satelite television service?
In the last twenty plus years I have watched Microsoft lay waste to dozens of companies and markets. Stac Electronics comes quickly to mind. They pioneered disk compression in the days of DOS. When DOS 6.0 included disk compression (stolen from Stac) Stac went bankrupt. They sued and won, and Microsoft eventually bought the entire company, but all the other vendors who were in competition with Stac just went away.
"Do you also prohibit Apple from shipping apps with Mac OS X? Or Mandrakesoft with Mandrake? "
No! That is different because these companies do not own 98% of the desktops in the world. When ATT was broken up, they were forced to sell blocks of network bandwidth to competing companies at rates that would allow those companies to resell it to end users at cheaper prices than ATT. In other words ATT was forced to let competitors sell ATT's own bandwidth cheaper than ATT. Those are the kinds of extreme measures required to manage monopolies. Since the monoploly already has an unfair advantage, you have to give the competitors special rights the monopoly does not have.
That was the first thing I thought, "One step closer to self driving cars." Before we have cars that can drive themselves, it is vital that the cars can communicate with each other.
Yeah it runs Linux, but does it have any Power Management configured? I've never run linux on a laptop, but I have looked at the power management features and they looked intimidating to configure. I have also heard that things like suspend do not always work with laptops in Linux.
Actually they did, in Table 4-2 Sample application survey. They list gimp as the only target for Adobe Photoshop 7.0 migration. I personally do not do a lot of graphic maniplulation, and do not use either of these applications so I cannot comment on how appropriate that is.
I think the real answer is "because these books are developed by IBM there are some content limitations." IBM does a pretty good job of not participating in the distribution wars. In the section titled "1.6 Linux overview and distribution choices" the only mention of distributions by name is this sentance: "Some of the most well-known distributions include Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, etc." IBM has technology aliances with both Red Hat and SuSE so they cannot publicly endorse one in favor of the other. A quick search of the pdf showed that Red Hat was mentioned 110 times and SuSE was only mentioned 15 times. Debian and Mandrake were mentioned six and seven times respectivly. I doubt that really proves anything.
I wonder if this marks the beginning of the end of the anti-spyware industry. In the past when microsoft has entered a software industry, it has meant the end of the competition. I can see it now, the next patch of Windows will have hidden routines that only Microsofts spyware removal software can access that makes it the most efficient software available at removing syware. At the same time, other routines will cause the OS to lock up or crash when running a competitors software. I no time Microsoft will own the market.