Why not,
If it was me trying to push an mp3 player on my folks this is what I would do,
Get a CD ROM with DAE at least 16x
Write a routine that will start to play the ripped (mpp3/ogg) while the cd is ripping, to make it seem like its doing both at the same time and reduce delay
Make sure there are as *FEW* buttons as possible(REC, Play, FF, RW, search)
Try to make an interface using an external 10 line LCD that you could grab at any supply store for cheap and keeps things simple
If you must use a CRT remember it is *NOT* the graphics and colors, it is the *FONT* that makes the UI
Now that is true that there is evolution in the workplace as well evreywhere else. But what happens to the monkeys that we have right now?
Slowly the large companies will start to cut people off and outsource, this breeds contempt. Already places like/. bring a community consesus and a direction. And doubleplusgood we have LINUX, not that they will start coding in pearl but now the secret ofthe OS and hardware is open and those who want to can pursue what they want.
Now the result is you have a large amount of intelligence that is completely up for hire. What would happen if groups of these people got together and started playing around? Instead of a large company you have hundreds or thousands of small ones, and unlikely they are corporate friendly.
Could this be the return of old fashion competition?? Maybe...
"his brother died because he needed help moving the body." Are you serious? only here can this be modded intresting. I may lead a sheltered life but isn't a 'body' already considered 'dead'???
Back on topic, I have found the answer to all our needs, first one to impliment gets a million dollars!!!
First sit down and talk to the cell providers and set up a system that records your cell number associated with the seat/area that your are enjoying the movie in, i.e. John Doe 444-333-2222 @ seat 103
If you get a call and the carrier (Sprint, verizon, et al) determine that you could be in the theater they send it to a voice mail with the option to set the urgency. Now the usher has the oppertunity to approach you at the proper time to inform you that you have a call. You step out side or in to a room / area of the building far away from what ever is going on, and the company connects the call, all the while the person who is likely moving their 'friends' body gets pleasent holding music while you are being saught after.
How about iddiots who call time after time saying it is urgent? Then you could even set the system up to only notify you of call originating for certain numbers, i.e. your house, where your kids are, computer repair shop, etc...
This way the if anyone gets ticked about being interrupted it is the theater responsibility to approach you in the best way possible and they can deal with it. Also most likely as it would be multiple carriers involved they could use this as a chance to appear innovative to the 'upper crust' of society play watcher as well as the teenies movie goer.
Disclaimer these are only opinions if it works you owe me lots of money though !!
Did you get this guys age? 63 year old programmer. Now I'm pretty sure either Charles took up the habit of programming during his mid life crisis (aprox 50 years old) or this man is a huge asset and started to code when Assembly was really the best way to go rather than straight machine code.
If this guy did have 30 years coding would any one here cut him lose for running SETI?? Like common, he could have been out of shape and 400 pounds and still pump out 40 lines of COBOL / C a minuite.
And on top of it the big mouth boss goes out of his way to piss on him to the press no less and not just to his secretary.
Personally I think both are iddiots but the state HR should definately look into this a little closer if not to seek rehiring Charles but to find out how many people are getting miss treated in the work place.
I dont understand why the guberment has such a hard-on about being able to remotely detect your info. If they can do it then the people who really want to take advantage will. If im a multi-millionaire that wants to spoof my ID do you seriously think RFID will stop them? I doubt that most of the law enforcement that will be checking this ID will be able to detect a tampered or false ID.
And on top of it if these people want to take your ID the just take a device made by some underground uber-geek and just walk right by you. Why dont they just add some type of logic in form of traces or unique composites that requires direct contact where the card would have to be inserted into a machine for a proper read. That way I know that as long as my ID is in my pocket it is safe.
If they want more security then I would go for that rather than RFID.
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You forget one thing M$ cannot under any circumstances let IE go from the OS. That is the entire reason why they are allowed to send out coppies of it right now with your new machine.
By Microsoft taking IE out of the deep depths of the OS all of a sudden you have an "external" browser. Sure the OS will benifit from security and a smaller foot print, but who will be able to say "it cannot be removed from the OS because with out it the system doesn't work"
That is why I think M$ is doomed to carry this monkey on their back and apparently after having it for the past 9 years they have no idea how to isolate it from the os, or just dont want to.
Why don't IBM & Microsoft sit down and, this is the tricky part...
Think really hard (not just pretend)
And come up with software that works properly rather than exploit the stupidity of the user.
When was the last time M$.com wz broken into??? The best anyone has done is a D.O.S on them which a trusted computing chip wont help. The thing that I am waiting for is these dumbass companies to start taking your personal info and associating it with the chip. Then when M$ crappy OS allows a user to access a _trusted_ routine to change all of the crap around. *Their* computers will trust you blindly because you are "trusted".
Just think of this (after you put your tin foil hat on) M$ will use software to change the chip status/info how long will it take before the black hats find the secret knock to open it up??
They forget joe sixpack is not the one hacking and spreading the virii around, its the gaping backdoors that are programmed into and distributed forcefully to _Millions_ of computers that allow people to hack them. Even then the hacker doesnt even want your info or your mothers recipe for brownies, they just want your CPU and LAN connection to fuck other people up, ie. M$ et al.
So in this slashdotters opinion the computer industry is officially chasing thier tails and they will again look stupid.
IMHO it will take about another 5 - 10 years before all the old corporate dinosaurs die off, untill people in our generation who understand how this technology works get in the drivers seats and do it right. For now we can just sit back and laugh...
I have to agree, comming from someone who bought the FP2000 (same specs but no swivel base) I love the monitor. Games are pretty good but in some high FPS games you can notice a flicker but other wise it is flawless. Even the viewing angle only leaves out maybe a 10 degree extreme from both sides at most and is very bright.
"There can't possibly be that much email worth keeping"
Actually now that I have a Gmail account what I've done is gone to all of my favourite tech sites and subscribed to all the mailing lists for groups / topics of my intrest.
Now I have a catalog of many diffrent topics (hardware reviews, stock info, etc) all threaded. I can let it collect for months and not worry about going over my limit.
Then at a later date I can review and look at trends over the past and possibly use that to make other decisions (purchace, reccomendation) and the best thing is its all for free.
I think that is something google should look into is designing an interface / application that allows the user to descide how they are advertised to.
Most of us don't like ads because they are poorly designed and there is the fear of being lost when hit by popups or cyclical sites that confuse the visitor. I think that I would actually *offer* my info to a mailing list that would allow me to customize the layout. That meaning having small pic's and lotta text for those who are Übertech and hi-res pics on the front for others (with broadband;))
Seriously I do think that many of the online advertisers have their heads up their ass when it comes to making the customer confident in thieir choice to buy thier product. Really I don't care who has any particular product, I just want what I see and I want it as quckly as possible. That is really the bottom line (in my book)
With the price of RAM these days you could boot the system off the flash and hold static web pages and configs.
Then load evreything to a ram disk with 1GB of most flavours of ram run at about $200 you should be able to run faster and more efficient.
Also if you were considering just using the wireless router and flashing a new *nix OS why not just get your hack on and get an external 2.5" case that will hold around 60-80GB and a usb to eternet adapter and solve all your problems even cheaper!!
How about if SCO is planning to run out of money before the outcome?
Thats the only thing they can do. They just have to say that "IBM beat them up and they couldnt afford to prove thier case other wise they would have won" Sick I know but if you were in that position would you do the same?
Maybe we are looking at this in the wrong way... The question we should ask is "Have the **AA just been getting a free lunch all along?" and "Should they be able to make these alligations based on money lost that they should not be making in the first place?"
If all was based on 'fair use' then we would never have to replace the medium at our cost if we have proof that we originaly purchaced the content, how much of the **AA's income is based on purchaces that should in all rights be free? Should this be looked upon as a 'bonus'? of course they are selling the content once which by the way is what their business involves (i.e they are not in the business of selling the media, the product they are selling you is the content)
Should there be a study of how much "cream" these companies are making and weather they should be allowed to continue.
Because if you know about overclocking would you really buy an intel chip why paythem an extra $1000 for them to OC the crap out of it? Then realize you could have bought the same system for $2000 less and clocked it your self?
I think in this room I know what would be the choice...
This would be a great start to not only getting a system to be multitasking via CPU but getting the CPU to multitask/thread I/O heavy stuff and a bit of FP, then have a seperate subsystem to take care of graphics and sound (multimedia) that way instead of working off of the CPU 'heartbeat' we could very well have both subsystems independant and able to have fault tollerance on each part of the system to handle its own problems. This on paper would seem to make sence and make a system more robust and also keep the OS's honest by keeping the data streams specialized as the type of data is usually specialized in terms of I/O and audio/video type processing.
Possibly even break it down futher and have another subsystem with its own CUP for I/O?? The name of the game is to have evrey thing work at capasity, not storage working at 1000th of the rest of the system.
Each "Application" would be a bundled OS + Application
Simple user interface would allow location and execution of any applicable Application
could use egg drop routine that would be its own OS + Maintenance (Application) that would check for charistics of the hardware (which will be made easier once the new BIOS's ship) and configure a kernel with the necessary options and use the appropriate resources (ie slow machines use binary's as much as possible, fast machine go from source) or what ever is applicable to boot the OS of choice (is it possible to run an ap using nothing but 'kernel32'?);)
That would be both amazingly fast execution and solid stability
How about if they are doing this to Edward Kennedy et al on purpose. So far the US has asked us for their trust and if Mr. Kennedy is a suspected terrorist and under review will not be given a clean slate in terms of flying on an airplane then should he be holding office?
Why is it that they are not arresting any of the people that they flag as terrorists (or likely to be)?
They are swinging a big stick and pointing it all around but not 'doing' anything rather than threatening to use it again.
If they want all of this trust, patients and understanding why don't they ever accomplish anything other than moving the 'terrorist alert' level?
With all this intelligence and lists they have compliled why have they not made any arrests? Its been 3 years (almost) now but the same thing over and over again, "if you dont do what we say you will die at the hands of some religious freak".
I don't know about you but if I had a list of bad people that were gonna do bad things I would do a little more than wait for them to get on a plane to just ask them questions and waste their time, then of course let them go on thier marry way.
Common Bush give us some reason to buy your bullshit it can't be that hard you have a lot of intelligent people working for you just give em more tax payer money, because in my opinion you are the worst terrorist of them all
"Very, very few (if any) are the complex systems put into place with zero bugs"
Now I do agree with the parent poster 110% but at the same time why would you take the risk of putting a system that can effect so many people in complete control without a fall back?
Would you test pilot a plane with out at least a parachute?
Seriously though. Right now there are *many* ways of streaming audio data from point to point across the internet. The only thing that sucks about it, is that ma bell and friends wont route your call through thier network. Now lets say in 5 years when evreyone is using VOIP and evreyone has an internet connection in some form or another. What is to stop me from firing up my fav app and connecting a mic to my DRM enabled computer and type in your new IPv6 address? Would we be able to bypass all the corporations entirely? How long till the phone companies get thier protocols hacked, etc? And as always if some one is ever going to do something that is remotely illegal then they are either stupid and will get caught or use another method and get around.
Why don't they use some of their intelligence to find out why people slack in the first place.
Some people are depressed, don't like the job that they are doing, etc. That is reality, not a pill that will "magically" get them do "work". They forget the problem is not that all employees are lazy, if they care to really put an effort into some research or get grants from someone with intelligence they could find out that you must hire the right people for the job. This kinda reminds me of that saying "When you have a hammer all your problems look like a nail". Lastly did they ever think that the reason people are slacking is because they don't know what they are doing? How will turbo charging them help?
To me this sounds like a goverment sponsored narcotic. Cocaine will deliver some of the same results and we look down as we should on users / abusers of these drugs but since this is 'researched' does this open the door to other narcotics being ok? Are abusers just merely people who want to get ahead in life and should get tax breaks for thier habbit?
Of course have they realized that this will not make anyone do the work *they* want them to do. It will just make them consentrate on what the user feels like doing. Sounds sick to me where do you think it could go from here?
You have phone that has 2.5G, approx 40-160Kbps connection with your cell phone provider and only the ability to physically controll "DozenS" of songs at any time.
Well I have a pretty good feeling your friendly provider would be happy at increasing revenue per, client to "Download" a song. iTunes keeps track of your purchace so you can listen to it at home too.. just download what you want to listen to on the go which @ 100Kbps would take about 4 1/2 mins to download your favourite "new" song purchasing more of apples product as well.
Of course the final niche would be Moto as since they have excellent recption (in most cases) and they know how to (and do) make phones they will be in demand by most if not all service providers (knocking nokia around a little)
Actually I think this is a awesome idea. Never before has it been this easy to "harvest" information with this possibility for results. With 1 GB of room for error (viagra, et al) and if threaded emails could somehow be grouped by 'genre' where "Hardware" could be linked even multiple times to other groups that may contain subjects such as "Wish list", "Computers" or "Technology"....
With a good eye for mailing lists and other correspondence you could even build your own 'supper site' that you could share with others in part or in whole in form of links (ranges of..)
Even would give google a good test on how people would really search for information... For example for 'hardware' you may add apple, ibm, linux;)... and see what people keep and throw away or what becomes popular with others via sharing.
OR even dare to think Google with all their power, wealth and genious would host sites that would allow others check out your 'public collection' you could also have files hosted to others right from google. Thus making it the number one hot spot for attention via any browser. Think of it as an ultimate blog...
Even possibly you could have people reply back to your email address in 'public mode' that would allow the site to dynamicaly grow and be interacted without the direct intervention of the owner of the address / site. Who could of course shut it down at any time keeping all notes that were submitted while it was up for public interraction under personal view (as a cool momento:)
I (Hollywood, NFL, anyone) broadcast an event that who ever has access to this event wheather it be in person or television views it. Now I have a susbscription to the channel and the event for the date and time it was broadcasted. Why is it such a big deal eventhough for _whatever_ reason I was not able to see it so I duped the tape off of a friend and watched it.
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Now that is true that there is evolution in the workplace as well evreywhere else. But what happens to the monkeys that we have right now?
/. bring a community consesus and a direction. And doubleplusgood we have LINUX, not that they will start coding in pearl but now the secret ofthe OS and hardware is open and those who want to can pursue what they want.
Slowly the large companies will start to cut people off and outsource, this breeds contempt. Already places like
Now the result is you have a large amount of intelligence that is completely up for hire. What would happen if groups of these people got together and started playing around? Instead of a large company you have hundreds or thousands of small ones, and unlikely they are corporate friendly.
Could this be the return of old fashion competition?? Maybe...
"his brother died because he needed help moving the body." Are you serious? only here can this be modded intresting. I may lead a sheltered life but isn't a 'body' already considered 'dead'???
Back on topic, I have found the answer to all our needs, first one to impliment gets a million dollars!!!
First sit down and talk to the cell providers and set up a system that records your cell number associated with the seat/area that your are enjoying the movie in, i.e. John Doe 444-333-2222 @ seat 103
If you get a call and the carrier (Sprint, verizon, et al) determine that you could be in the theater they send it to a voice mail with the option to set the urgency. Now the usher has the oppertunity to approach you at the proper time to inform you that you have a call. You step out side or in to a room / area of the building far away from what ever is going on, and the company connects the call, all the while the person who is likely moving their 'friends' body gets pleasent holding music while you are being saught after.
How about iddiots who call time after time saying it is urgent? Then you could even set the system up to only notify you of call originating for certain numbers, i.e. your house, where your kids are, computer repair shop, etc...
This way the if anyone gets ticked about being interrupted it is the theater responsibility to approach you in the best way possible and they can deal with it. Also most likely as it would be multiple carriers involved they could use this as a chance to appear innovative to the 'upper crust' of society play watcher as well as the teenies movie goer.
Disclaimer these are only opinions if it works you owe me lots of money though !!
Did you get this guys age? 63 year old programmer. Now I'm pretty sure either Charles took up the habit of programming during his mid life crisis (aprox 50 years old) or this man is a huge asset and started to code when Assembly was really the best way to go rather than straight machine code.
If this guy did have 30 years coding would any one here cut him lose for running SETI?? Like common, he could have been out of shape and 400 pounds and still pump out 40 lines of COBOL / C a minuite.
And on top of it the big mouth boss goes out of his way to piss on him to the press no less and not just to his secretary.
Personally I think both are iddiots but the state HR should definately look into this a little closer if not to seek rehiring Charles but to find out how many people are getting miss treated in the work place.
I dont understand why the guberment has such a hard-on about being able to remotely detect your info. If they can do it then the people who really want to take advantage will. If im a multi-millionaire that wants to spoof my ID do you seriously think RFID will stop them? I doubt that most of the law enforcement that will be checking this ID will be able to detect a tampered or false ID.
And on top of it if these people want to take your ID the just take a device made by some underground uber-geek and just walk right by you. Why dont they just add some type of logic in form of traces or unique composites that requires direct contact where the card would have to be inserted into a machine for a proper read. That way I know that as long as my ID is in my pocket it is safe.
If they want more security then I would go for that rather than RFID.
You forget one thing M$ cannot under any circumstances let IE go from the OS. That is the entire reason why they are allowed to send out coppies of it right now with your new machine.
By Microsoft taking IE out of the deep depths of the OS all of a sudden you have an "external" browser. Sure the OS will benifit from security and a smaller foot print, but who will be able to say "it cannot be removed from the OS because with out it the system doesn't work"
That is why I think M$ is doomed to carry this monkey on their back and apparently after having it for the past 9 years they have no idea how to isolate it from the os, or just dont want to.
Find it ironic that it links back here??
Here's an idea....
...
Why don't IBM & Microsoft sit down and, this is the tricky part
Think really hard (not just pretend)
And come up with software that works properly rather than exploit the stupidity of the user.
When was the last time M$.com wz broken into??? The best anyone has done is a D.O.S on them which a trusted computing chip wont help. The thing that I am waiting for is these dumbass companies to start taking your personal info and associating it with the chip. Then when M$ crappy OS allows a user to access a _trusted_ routine to change all of the crap around. *Their* computers will trust you blindly because you are "trusted".
Just think of this (after you put your tin foil hat on) M$ will use software to change the chip status/info how long will it take before the black hats find the secret knock to open it up??
They forget joe sixpack is not the one hacking and spreading the virii around, its the gaping backdoors that are programmed into and distributed forcefully to _Millions_ of computers that allow people to hack them. Even then the hacker doesnt even want your info or your mothers recipe for brownies, they just want your CPU and LAN connection to fuck other people up, ie. M$ et al.
So in this slashdotters opinion the computer industry is officially chasing thier tails and they will again look stupid.
IMHO it will take about another 5 - 10 years before all the old corporate dinosaurs die off, untill people in our generation who understand how this technology works get in the drivers seats and do it right. For now we can just sit back and laugh...
I have to agree, comming from someone who bought the FP2000 (same specs but no swivel base) I love the monitor. Games are pretty good but in some high FPS games you can notice a flicker but other wise it is flawless. Even the viewing angle only leaves out maybe a 10 degree extreme from both sides at most and is very bright.
YMMV but this is one happy customer!!
"There can't possibly be that much email worth keeping"
;))
Actually now that I have a Gmail account what I've done is gone to all of my favourite tech sites and subscribed to all the mailing lists for groups / topics of my intrest.
Now I have a catalog of many diffrent topics (hardware reviews, stock info, etc) all threaded. I can let it collect for months and not worry about going over my limit.
Then at a later date I can review and look at trends over the past and possibly use that to make other decisions (purchace, reccomendation) and the best thing is its all for free.
I think that is something google should look into is designing an interface / application that allows the user to descide how they are advertised to.
Most of us don't like ads because they are poorly designed and there is the fear of being lost when hit by popups or cyclical sites that confuse the visitor. I think that I would actually *offer* my info to a mailing list that would allow me to customize the layout. That meaning having small pic's and lotta text for those who are Übertech and hi-res pics on the front for others (with broadband
Seriously I do think that many of the online advertisers have their heads up their ass when it comes to making the customer confident in thieir choice to buy thier product. Really I don't care who has any particular product, I just want what I see and I want it as quckly as possible. That is really the bottom line (in my book)
With the price of RAM these days you could boot the system off the flash and hold static web pages and configs.
Then load evreything to a ram disk with 1GB of most flavours of ram run at about $200 you should be able to run faster and more efficient.
Also if you were considering just using the wireless router and flashing a new *nix OS why not just get your hack on and get an external 2.5" case that will hold around 60-80GB and a usb to eternet adapter and solve all your problems even cheaper!!
Just my $0.02
How about if SCO is planning to run out of money before the outcome?
Thats the only thing they can do. They just have to say that "IBM beat them up and they couldnt afford to prove thier case other wise they would have won" Sick I know but if you were in that position would you do the same?
Just my $0.02
This is an early warning M$ gets hacked just about as often as I change my underwear (1 x week)
/End Warning
Maybe we are looking at this in the wrong way... The question we should ask is "Have the **AA just been getting a free lunch all along?" and "Should they be able to make these alligations based on money lost that they should not be making in the first place?"
If all was based on 'fair use' then we would never have to replace the medium at our cost if we have proof that we originaly purchaced the content, how much of the **AA's income is based on purchaces that should in all rights be free? Should this be looked upon as a 'bonus'? of course they are selling the content once which by the way is what their business involves (i.e they are not in the business of selling the media, the product they are selling you is the content)
Should there be a study of how much "cream" these companies are making and weather they should be allowed to continue.
My $0.02
Those bastards have been smoking my hash ...
... never mind
oops
Because if you know about overclocking would you really buy an intel chip why paythem an extra $1000 for them to OC the crap out of it?
Then realize you could have bought the same system for $2000 less and clocked it your self?
I think in this room I know what would be the choice...
This would be a great start to not only getting a system to be multitasking via CPU but getting the CPU to multitask/thread I/O heavy stuff and a bit of FP, then have a seperate subsystem to take care of graphics and sound (multimedia) that way instead of working off of the CPU 'heartbeat' we could very well have both subsystems independant and able to have fault tollerance on each part of the system to handle its own problems. This on paper would seem to make sence and make a system more robust and also keep the OS's honest by keeping the data streams specialized as the type of data is usually specialized in terms of I/O and audio/video type processing.
Possibly even break it down futher and have another subsystem with its own CUP for I/O?? The name of the game is to have evrey thing work at capasity, not storage working at 1000th of the rest of the system.
Could be a good idea ?
How about an OS that handles mini OS's ....
;)
Each "Application" would be a bundled OS + Application
Simple user interface would allow location and execution of any applicable Application
could use egg drop routine that would be its own OS + Maintenance (Application) that would check for charistics of the hardware (which will be made easier once the new BIOS's ship) and configure a kernel with the necessary options and use the appropriate resources (ie slow machines use binary's as much as possible, fast machine go from source) or what ever is applicable to boot the OS of choice (is it possible to run an ap using nothing but 'kernel32'?)
That would be both amazingly fast execution and solid stability
just my $0.02
How about if they are doing this to Edward Kennedy et al on purpose. So far the US has asked us for their trust and if Mr. Kennedy is a suspected terrorist and under review will not be given a clean slate in terms of flying on an airplane then should he be holding office?
Why is it that they are not arresting any of the people that they flag as terrorists (or likely to be)?
They are swinging a big stick and pointing it all around but not 'doing' anything rather than threatening to use it again.
If they want all of this trust, patients and understanding why don't they ever accomplish anything other than moving the 'terrorist alert' level?
With all this intelligence and lists they have compliled why have they not made any arrests? Its been 3 years (almost) now but the same thing over and over again, "if you dont do what we say you will die at the hands of some religious freak".
I don't know about you but if I had a list of bad people that were gonna do bad things I would do a little more than wait for them to get on a plane to just ask them questions and waste their time, then of course let them go on thier marry way.
Common Bush give us some reason to buy your bullshit it can't be that hard you have a lot of intelligent people working for you just give em more tax payer money, because in my opinion you are the worst terrorist of them all
my $0.02 take it or leave it
Quoth the parent
"Very, very few (if any) are the complex systems put into place with zero bugs"
Now I do agree with the parent poster 110% but at the same time why would you take the risk of putting a system that can effect so many people in complete control without a fall back?
Would you test pilot a plane with out at least a parachute?
Seriously though.
Right now there are *many* ways of streaming audio data from point to point across the internet. The only thing that sucks about it, is that ma bell and friends wont route your call through thier network.
Now lets say in 5 years when evreyone is using VOIP and evreyone has an internet connection in some form or another. What is to stop me from firing up my fav app and connecting a mic to my DRM enabled computer and type in your new IPv6 address?
Would we be able to bypass all the corporations entirely? How long till the phone companies get thier protocols hacked, etc?
And as always if some one is ever going to do something that is remotely illegal then they are either stupid and will get caught or use another method and get around.
Why don't they use some of their intelligence to find out why people slack in the first place.
Some people are depressed, don't like the job that they are doing, etc. That is reality, not a pill that will "magically" get them do "work".
They forget the problem is not that all employees are lazy, if they care to really put an effort into some research or get grants from someone with intelligence they could find out that you must hire the right people for the job.
This kinda reminds me of that saying "When you have a hammer all your problems look like a nail".
Lastly did they ever think that the reason people are slacking is because they don't know what they are doing? How will turbo charging them help?
To me this sounds like a goverment sponsored narcotic. Cocaine will deliver some of the same results and we look down as we should on users / abusers of these drugs but since this is 'researched' does this open the door to other narcotics being ok? Are abusers just merely people who want to get ahead in life and should get tax breaks for thier habbit?
Of course have they realized that this will not make anyone do the work *they* want them to do. It will just make them consentrate on what the user feels like doing. Sounds sick to me where do you think it could go from here?
Umm ... It might also look like this ...
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You have phone that has 2.5G, approx 40-160Kbps connection with your cell phone provider and only the ability to physically controll "DozenS" of songs at any time.
Well I have a pretty good feeling your friendly provider would be happy at increasing revenue per, client to "Download" a song. iTunes keeps track of your purchace so you can listen to it at home too.. just download what you want to listen to on the go which @ 100Kbps would take about 4 1/2 mins to download your favourite "new" song purchasing more of apples product as well.
Of course the final niche would be Moto as since they have excellent recption (in most cases) and they know how to (and do) make phones they will be in demand by most if not all service providers (knocking nokia around a little)
That could work
Actually I think this is a awesome idea. Never before has it been this easy to "harvest" information with this possibility for results. ....
;)... and see what people keep and throw away or what becomes popular with others via sharing.
:)
With 1 GB of room for error (viagra, et al) and if threaded emails could somehow be grouped by 'genre' where "Hardware" could be linked even multiple times to other groups that may contain subjects such as "Wish list", "Computers" or "Technology"
With a good eye for mailing lists and other correspondence you could even build your own 'supper site' that you could share with others in part or in whole in form of links (ranges of..)
Even would give google a good test on how people would really search for information... For example for 'hardware' you may add apple, ibm, linux
OR even dare to think Google with all their power, wealth and genious would host sites that would allow others check out your 'public collection' you could also have files hosted to others right from google. Thus making it the number one hot spot for attention via any browser. Think of it as an ultimate blog...
Even possibly you could have people reply back to your email address in 'public mode' that would allow the site to dynamicaly grow and be interacted without the direct intervention of the owner of the address / site. Who could of course shut it down at any time keeping all notes that were submitted while it was up for public interraction under personal view (as a cool momento
Now that would be cool!!!
Are they really protecting their income streams?
I (Hollywood, NFL, anyone) broadcast an event that who ever has access to this event wheather it be in person or television views it. Now I have a susbscription to the channel and the event for the date and time it was broadcasted. Why is it such a big deal eventhough for _whatever_ reason I was not able to see it so I duped the tape off of a friend and watched it.
What is the matter with what I have just done?