"It sounds like something you might pitch to a Hollywood studio. A high-security US radiation lab is thrown into turmoil when a cylinder spewing out deadly radiation gets trapped in its network of delivery tubes. A robot is sent to try and free the canister before the radiation eats away at its circuits. After a string of failures, the intrepid machine saves the day."
Not hardly. For that you'd need Tommy Lee Jones and terrorists to some how get involved.
You've got a good point, except for this part here:
If you don't like my skin color, don't sell to me.
If it isn't already illegal (and I'm pretty sure it is) then it should be. It certainly is immoral. Anything determined by genetics should not be basis for refusal to serve.
Note: I'm assuming you meant this only hypothetically and I hold no grudge against you until proven otherwise.
True, they could sell it. But they could also data mine it for their own purposes. Right now they have a limited portion of any user's activity, after they disappear off of Google.com it's anyone's guess what they do. Imagine just how much the Google engineers would love to have access to entire browsing histories for thousands of users that is months long. All uniquely identified by their MAC address and/or login credentials and location tracked to within a few hundred feet based on which AP they're accessing. Any data miner worth their salts would love to get their hands on that. Like a giant maze with several thousand live rats. And who better to use that data.
Google could: 1. Identify emerging trends and buy into them. 2. Serve more targeted ads (AdSense). 3. Offer location based services (Dodgeball). 4. Improve search results. 5. Sell the data.
The two things Google is known for are sophisticated algorithms and usability. The article (acording to the summary) touches on algorithm improvements. I just hope Google can also bring clean looks, platform GUI integration, user testing, and usability to OpenOffice. They need it. I don't like the current Office, but I like OpenOffice a lot less. Further Office 12 looks like it could really bring a lot of innovation to interface design, open source will need to follow suite to be competitive. Often techies forget that user experience is the biggest user-measurable quality.
Check "Automatically synchronize with an Internet time server" box.
Click "OK."
Oh, and this is checked by default. Wow, real difficult.
However it should be noted that it is just as easy in Ubuntu. Linux can be usable, it just often isn't. We should strive to narrow that gap, not make do.
I think it time we give PayPal's parent company an idea of what we think of their subsidiary. I'm willing to bet that if anybody with enough seniority gets ahold of this and recognizes it for the ticking PR time-bomb it is things could be set right.
EBay's toll free investor line: 1-866-696-3229 or 1-866-696-eBay
Honestly, who cares. I'm willing to bet the real difference is very little to none. Could everybody stop fighting over whose more intelligent? I'm tired of hearing that women are more intelligent and I don't put much stock in this study either.
The problem is the culture that Windows has engendered, which says "everything should be automagic -- don't think! -- just click and the world will be yours!"
I'm tired of the UNIX philosophy that seems to say that anything that allows users to do things easier should be considered a security risk. News flash, empowering users is not a fundamentally bad idea.
In an interview linked to by Gizmodo (http://www.gizmodo.com/) he said $200 is very optimistic and $300 is just optimistic. If it had enough application support I might buy it.
...don't fix it. Verisign's monopoly aside, I haven't heard of any cases in which the internet has been abused by the United States or any organization assigned to administrate it. This change is fixing a problem that doesn't exist and may create problems that do. Other than political niceness, what does internationalization of the internet's control really offer?
There was also a high priority update for Microsoft Office in addition to the 3 OS patches. Nothing critical, just updated spam definitions.
Quote: Update for Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB895658) This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail. This update was released in July 2005.
I'm using the new Microsoft Update (as opposed to Windows and Office separately) and so should you. And yes, according to their FAQ it adds Office to Windows automatic update.
If you buy a Pocket PC (not sure about Palm) be prepared to get stuck with the included applications. Nobody seems to know how to write an elegant application for the Pocket PC. They all look like the worst kind of Windows freeware you can find.
However, all is not lost. The included software is pretty darn good. Pocket Internet Explorer, Pocket Word, Pocket Excel, Pocket Media Player, Notes, Tasks, Inbox, Contacts, Calendar, Pictures, etc. Very comprehensive for most of what you'll be doing with it.
Personally I'm glad I bought it (I have a HP iPAQ h4350). For starters it lets me check e-mail all day long. I use the Calendar to track big events. I use Notes extensively to take class notes (just write on it as if handwriting). It has Bluetooth so it can interface with my phone filesystem (photos from the camera) and internet connection. Then at down points I can check Slashdot or play Solitaire.
In a lot of cases I know people like to avoid HP, but for Pocket PCs that rule is completely reversed. With my model you get Bluetooth, WiFi, QWERTY keypad, 400Mhz processor, full color screen, SD/MMC slot. You can't get a Palm with all of that unless you purchase accessories (only the LifeDrive has Bluetooth and WiFi, but it doesn't have a keypad). It set me back ~$400.
Slashdot Mirror
How much would you pay for a company when its assets are hidden from view?
5 bucks and a bag of potato chips. Next question, please.
"It sounds like something you might pitch to a Hollywood studio. A high-security US radiation lab is thrown into turmoil when a cylinder spewing out deadly radiation gets trapped in its network of delivery tubes. A robot is sent to try and free the canister before the radiation eats away at its circuits. After a string of failures, the intrepid machine saves the day."
Not hardly. For that you'd need Tommy Lee Jones and terrorists to some how get involved.
A holiday keylogger called Dasher. Could we call whoever wrote this a scrooge? Howbout a grinch? The cuteness doesn't stop here folks!
well, whatever you call it when you tattoo an advertisement on your forehead for money.
Materialistic and depraved?
They've made some neat changes, and the details are here:
http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/Windows+Vista
The Slashdots and the Diggs are too Apple and Linux happy.
You've got a good point, except for this part here:
If you don't like my skin color, don't sell to me.
If it isn't already illegal (and I'm pretty sure it is) then it should be. It certainly is immoral. Anything determined by genetics should not be basis for refusal to serve.
Note: I'm assuming you meant this only hypothetically and I hold no grudge against you until proven otherwise.
According to Amazon's Search Inside the Book it is on or about page 773.
Simplicity.
Cake. :P
True, they could sell it. But they could also data mine it for their own purposes. Right now they have a limited portion of any user's activity, after they disappear off of Google.com it's anyone's guess what they do. Imagine just how much the Google engineers would love to have access to entire browsing histories for thousands of users that is months long. All uniquely identified by their MAC address and/or login credentials and location tracked to within a few hundred feet based on which AP they're accessing. Any data miner worth their salts would love to get their hands on that. Like a giant maze with several thousand live rats. And who better to use that data.
Google could:
1. Identify emerging trends and buy into them.
2. Serve more targeted ads (AdSense).
3. Offer location based services (Dodgeball).
4. Improve search results.
5. Sell the data.
The two things Google is known for are sophisticated algorithms and usability. The article (acording to the summary) touches on algorithm improvements. I just hope Google can also bring clean looks, platform GUI integration, user testing, and usability to OpenOffice. They need it. I don't like the current Office, but I like OpenOffice a lot less. Further Office 12 looks like it could really bring a lot of innovation to interface design, open source will need to follow suite to be competitive. Often techies forget that user experience is the biggest user-measurable quality.
Oh, and this is checked by default. Wow, real difficult.
However it should be noted that it is just as easy in Ubuntu. Linux can be usable, it just often isn't. We should strive to narrow that gap, not make do.
I think it time we give PayPal's parent company an idea of what we think of their subsidiary. I'm willing to bet that if anybody with enough seniority gets ahold of this and recognizes it for the ticking PR time-bomb it is things could be set right.
EBay's toll free investor line:
1-866-696-3229
or
1-866-696-eBay
Have fun.
Honestly, who cares. I'm willing to bet the real difference is very little to none. Could everybody stop fighting over whose more intelligent? I'm tired of hearing that women are more intelligent and I don't put much stock in this study either.
The problem is the culture that Windows has engendered, which says "everything should be automagic -- don't think! -- just click and the world will be yours!"
I'm tired of the UNIX philosophy that seems to say that anything that allows users to do things easier should be considered a security risk. News flash, empowering users is not a fundamentally bad idea.
And now I'll make a careful incision into the hea[BUFFERING 67%]
Next Google will take over horse farming. And give us all ponies!
Seriously people.
...they'll put you on ice.
Ka-ching!
First Google.
Now Zazzle.
What next? Gejujwh[NO CARRIER]
In an interview linked to by Gizmodo (http://www.gizmodo.com/) he said $200 is very optimistic and $300 is just optimistic. If it had enough application support I might buy it.
...don't fix it. Verisign's monopoly aside, I haven't heard of any cases in which the internet has been abused by the United States or any organization assigned to administrate it. This change is fixing a problem that doesn't exist and may create problems that do. Other than political niceness, what does internationalization of the internet's control really offer?
info@healthcareadvocates.com
Be gentle, they might be in the right after all.
There was also a high priority update for Microsoft Office in addition to the 3 OS patches. Nothing critical, just updated spam definitions.
Quote:
Update for Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB895658)
This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail. This update was released in July 2005.
I'm using the new Microsoft Update (as opposed to Windows and Office separately) and so should you. And yes, according to their FAQ it adds Office to Windows automatic update.
Link: http://update.microsoft.com/
If you buy a Pocket PC (not sure about Palm) be prepared to get stuck with the included applications. Nobody seems to know how to write an elegant application for the Pocket PC. They all look like the worst kind of Windows freeware you can find.
However, all is not lost. The included software is pretty darn good. Pocket Internet Explorer, Pocket Word, Pocket Excel, Pocket Media Player, Notes, Tasks, Inbox, Contacts, Calendar, Pictures, etc. Very comprehensive for most of what you'll be doing with it.
Personally I'm glad I bought it (I have a HP iPAQ h4350). For starters it lets me check e-mail all day long. I use the Calendar to track big events. I use Notes extensively to take class notes (just write on it as if handwriting). It has Bluetooth so it can interface with my phone filesystem (photos from the camera) and internet connection. Then at down points I can check Slashdot or play Solitaire.
In a lot of cases I know people like to avoid HP, but for Pocket PCs that rule is completely reversed. With my model you get Bluetooth, WiFi, QWERTY keypad, 400Mhz processor, full color screen, SD/MMC slot. You can't get a Palm with all of that unless you purchase accessories (only the LifeDrive has Bluetooth and WiFi, but it doesn't have a keypad). It set me back ~$400.
Christ, its a bloody childen's book not freaking gold bars.