I work about ten seconds away from Ballard's two buildings in Burnaby, British Columbia and I've been seeing Civics in the neighborhood with "H2" logos and the like for years.
Largely irrelevant, but it makes me feel super cool...
Technically, it may be OK. The problem I have with his blog is the style it's written in. He writes like an elementary school student. Someone should teach him about varying sentence length and structure. Reading his blog is like reading an incoming telegraph. He's got a case of stop and go traffic going on there. Robots might appreciate it but humans probably would not. This has been a demonstration.
On the other hand, the poor quality of those movies could also be viewed as sufficient justification for buying/renting them because who the hell would want to wait/waste any amount of time to actually go ahead and download them? The money is worth less than the effort, and apparently the risk as well. If, for whatever reason, you want to see those movies, then you should go to the video store and sheepishly bring them up to the counter as if they were porn... And pretend that they're for your roommate.
That's why I love my movie channels. $10 a month for all the terrible movies you'd never be caught dead renting.
Or they're just like every other major company out there. They don't know how many hands they've got, nevermind what each one is doing. I think Microsoft used to manage its hands pretty well. One would be holding you up by the throat, one would be picking your pocket and one would be pushing a box of software at your gut. Now they mostly just flail around. The bigger the company, the more hands. The more hands, the more confused they each are about what they're supposed to be doing and what the other ones are doing. No surprise.
Fortunately, under Betamax, you will be able to timeshift your conversations using a PCR (Personal Conversation Recorder) and skip the ads. That is unless your conversations are flagged to protect their copyright integrity.
When you get to college... how many professors actually teach science and how many spend all of their time seeking new grants to ensure the university can afford a new football stadium?
I'd be interested to know how many professors actually teach anything at all. Universities and colleges are supposed to be instututions of higher learning not job training, but it seems like everyone's going to university to secure a high paying job and everyone's coming out with dead-end skills knowledge that comes straight out of an obsolete book. That sort of education will let people sit down and do any number of jobs right out of school, but it precludes those people from being catalysts for change and advancement. They're not intellectuals or thinkers or challengers. They're mental laborers. We're training our scientists and engineers the same way we train our welders and carpenters.
Universities and colleges used to provide educations. Now they provide credentials. A Bachelor's degree is the new highschool diploma and students are involved in a credentials arms race. The objective is not to learn anything but to become the most highly credentialed person you can in an effort to secure the highest paying job you can. Profit does indeed trump science, and education at large, but it's not necessarily corporate profit. It's personal profit too.
It uses a BP-5L, not a BL-5C. It's a Li-Po versus a Li-Ion and it's Nokia's highest capacity battery. Technically both are proprietary but, in true Nokia fashion, not unique to any specific product.
Are they trying to self-destruct or are they taking risks in an effort to bring interesting new technology to market? If a company doesn't try new things, then it will stagnate and die. The fact that the North American market doesn't want new things doesn't mean that companies have to stop trying. Samsung, for example, sells you silver flips but have you ever seen the crazy shit they're selling in Korea? It's the same with Nokia. America is a "developing" market insofar as mobile technology goes.
Off topic Norton rant!
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What will the agreed-upon name be for that piece of malware? Seems like Norton's more tenacious than and presents a larger array of system-wide issues to users than do the many of the viruses/worms/trojans it's supposed to protect against.
I assume that the quarters in question are American, but I'm Canadian. How many Canadian quarters does the new iPod weigh? Google doesn't have this useful conversion measure either!
I'm not going out of my way to sift through and collect eight American quarters out of my Canadian change!
What I really love about these "Telco_X Blocking VOIP" stories is that Telco_X is already using, or at the very least implementing, this technology to make your calls cheaper for them. The only circuit that still exists is the one between your house and the local Telco_X exchange. Everything else is or will very shortly be packet switched.
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Office Depot: $1m
BP: $1m cash + $/$ match of employee donations
Capital One: $1m cash
Anheuser-Busch: $250K cash + 875K cans of water
Eli Lilly: $1m cash + $/$ match of employee donations + $1m in insulin
Kellogg: $500k cash and food
Home Depot: $1.5m cash
Wal-Mart: $1m cash
Exxon Mobil: $2m cash
Amerada Hess: $1m cash + $/$ match of employee donations
Chevron: $5m cash
JP Morgan Chase: $1m cash + $/$ match of employee donations
DuPont: $1m cash
GM: $400k cash + vehicles
Culligan: 5 semi trailers of water
CVS: $250K cash + $254K in food and water
SMS messages will typically not get through in extreme congestion because delivery is best effort. They'll just get dropped. SMS uses the network's signalling mechanism, which as you can imagine is necessary for calls.
Now, if you dedicated the network to SMS exclusively in an emergency, that'd be smart!
When you see a phone in that state of mechanical completion (including PCB and components), it's basically a given that the final product will look and be the same. What you're looking at in the engadget article is likely the product of a 1-2 year old project. Changing mechanics at this point would be virtually impossible without effectively scrapping the project or tacking on another period of years. Either that or it's a red herring and totally fake, which I don't think anyone has ever done or even tried to do.
If that phone is the rumored phone in question, then that's what it will look like. There have already been numerous delays and rumored announcements so I wouldn't hold my breath. I suspect the reason is that Samsung and Nokia have caught Motorola by surprise and effectively left it a generation behind in MP3 phones. To launch an iTunes phone based on replaceable memory card technology would be a tremendous mistake so Motorola has spent the last half year scrambling to increase capacity in a way that doesn't demand significant mechanical change.
And then there's this and this and any number of similar pieces sporting similar acreage. These things are barely portable. I'm not saying that there aren't truly portable notebooks and subnotebooks on the market, just that the trend is to the bigger and it's starting to get pretty stupid.
Seems like desktops are becoming smaller, quieter and more efficient while notebooks are becoming larger, noisier and hungrier. Whatever happened to portability?
Maybe conjecture as opposed to studies. And, on that note, let's start a memory-erasing company that will purge all of a person's "weak memories" so that he/she doesn't need to sleep! Our first order of business will be to devise a method that will erase the person's memory of visiting us at all! Our slogan will be, "Only the strong survive!"
I've visited the movie theatre once in the past 6 months, I have rented zero DVDs during that time period and I haven't bought a single movie on DVD either. I'll admit that I did buy a television show box set, though. I couldn't care less about the protection applied to media and content if I don't care about the content itself. I won't watch it with DRM and I won't watch it without because it's crap either way!
It's like locking monopoly money in a giant vault.
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That's gotta suck, huh? From Greek war hero to American toilet hero.
I work about ten seconds away from Ballard's two buildings in Burnaby, British Columbia and I've been seeing Civics in the neighborhood with "H2" logos and the like for years.
Largely irrelevant, but it makes me feel super cool...
Technically, it may be OK. The problem I have with his blog is the style it's written in. He writes like an elementary school student. Someone should teach him about varying sentence length and structure. Reading his blog is like reading an incoming telegraph. He's got a case of stop and go traffic going on there. Robots might appreciate it but humans probably would not. This has been a demonstration.
On the other hand, the poor quality of those movies could also be viewed as sufficient justification for buying/renting them because who the hell would want to wait/waste any amount of time to actually go ahead and download them? The money is worth less than the effort, and apparently the risk as well. If, for whatever reason, you want to see those movies, then you should go to the video store and sheepishly bring them up to the counter as if they were porn... And pretend that they're for your roommate.
That's why I love my movie channels. $10 a month for all the terrible movies you'd never be caught dead renting.
Or they're just like every other major company out there. They don't know how many hands they've got, nevermind what each one is doing. I think Microsoft used to manage its hands pretty well. One would be holding you up by the throat, one would be picking your pocket and one would be pushing a box of software at your gut. Now they mostly just flail around. The bigger the company, the more hands. The more hands, the more confused they each are about what they're supposed to be doing and what the other ones are doing. No surprise.
Whoa, is Jack Thompson the attorney for this suit? Busy man!
Fortunately, under Betamax, you will be able to timeshift your conversations using a PCR (Personal Conversation Recorder) and skip the ads. That is unless your conversations are flagged to protect their copyright integrity.
When you get to college... how many professors actually teach science and how many spend all of their time seeking new grants to ensure the university can afford a new football stadium?
I'd be interested to know how many professors actually teach anything at all. Universities and colleges are supposed to be instututions of higher learning not job training, but it seems like everyone's going to university to secure a high paying job and everyone's coming out with dead-end skills knowledge that comes straight out of an obsolete book. That sort of education will let people sit down and do any number of jobs right out of school, but it precludes those people from being catalysts for change and advancement. They're not intellectuals or thinkers or challengers. They're mental laborers. We're training our scientists and engineers the same way we train our welders and carpenters.
Universities and colleges used to provide educations. Now they provide credentials. A Bachelor's degree is the new highschool diploma and students are involved in a credentials arms race. The objective is not to learn anything but to become the most highly credentialed person you can in an effort to secure the highest paying job you can. Profit does indeed trump science, and education at large, but it's not necessarily corporate profit. It's personal profit too.
I wonder what the margin of error on the poll that produced the 2% statistic is. I'm guessing it's more than 2%.
It uses a BP-5L, not a BL-5C. It's a Li-Po versus a Li-Ion and it's Nokia's highest capacity battery. Technically both are proprietary but, in true Nokia fashion, not unique to any specific product.
Are they trying to self-destruct or are they taking risks in an effort to bring interesting new technology to market? If a company doesn't try new things, then it will stagnate and die. The fact that the North American market doesn't want new things doesn't mean that companies have to stop trying. Samsung, for example, sells you silver flips but have you ever seen the crazy shit they're selling in Korea? It's the same with Nokia. America is a "developing" market insofar as mobile technology goes.
What will the agreed-upon name be for that piece of malware? Seems like Norton's more tenacious than and presents a larger array of system-wide issues to users than do the many of the viruses/worms/trojans it's supposed to protect against.
I assume that the quarters in question are American, but I'm Canadian. How many Canadian quarters does the new iPod weigh? Google doesn't have this useful conversion measure either!
I'm not going out of my way to sift through and collect eight American quarters out of my Canadian change!
What I really love about these "Telco_X Blocking VOIP" stories is that Telco_X is already using, or at the very least implementing, this technology to make your calls cheaper for them. The only circuit that still exists is the one between your house and the local Telco_X exchange. Everything else is or will very shortly be packet switched.
Whoosh!
Special (U2)^2 collector's edition! Now with more Bono.
Given that the same people will be on the freeway regardless, wouldn't you rather that they have some instructions with them?
Office Depot: $1m
BP: $1m cash + $/$ match of employee donations
Capital One: $1m cash
Anheuser-Busch: $250K cash + 875K cans of water
Eli Lilly: $1m cash + $/$ match of employee donations + $1m in insulin
Kellogg: $500k cash and food
Home Depot: $1.5m cash
Wal-Mart: $1m cash
Exxon Mobil: $2m cash
Amerada Hess: $1m cash + $/$ match of employee donations
Chevron: $5m cash
JP Morgan Chase: $1m cash + $/$ match of employee donations
DuPont: $1m cash
GM: $400k cash + vehicles
Culligan: 5 semi trailers of water
CVS: $250K cash + $254K in food and water
SMS messages will typically not get through in extreme congestion because delivery is best effort. They'll just get dropped. SMS uses the network's signalling mechanism, which as you can imagine is necessary for calls.
Now, if you dedicated the network to SMS exclusively in an emergency, that'd be smart!
When you see a phone in that state of mechanical completion (including PCB and components), it's basically a given that the final product will look and be the same. What you're looking at in the engadget article is likely the product of a 1-2 year old project. Changing mechanics at this point would be virtually impossible without effectively scrapping the project or tacking on another period of years. Either that or it's a red herring and totally fake, which I don't think anyone has ever done or even tried to do.
If that phone is the rumored phone in question, then that's what it will look like. There have already been numerous delays and rumored announcements so I wouldn't hold my breath. I suspect the reason is that Samsung and Nokia have caught Motorola by surprise and effectively left it a generation behind in MP3 phones. To launch an iTunes phone based on replaceable memory card technology would be a tremendous mistake so Motorola has spent the last half year scrambling to increase capacity in a way that doesn't demand significant mechanical change.
And then there's this and this and any number of similar pieces sporting similar acreage. These things are barely portable. I'm not saying that there aren't truly portable notebooks and subnotebooks on the market, just that the trend is to the bigger and it's starting to get pretty stupid.
Seems like desktops are becoming smaller, quieter and more efficient while notebooks are becoming larger, noisier and hungrier. Whatever happened to portability?
Correction:Iin the future, the people of India and China will be working 36 hour shifts!
Maybe conjecture as opposed to studies. And, on that note, let's start a memory-erasing company that will purge all of a person's "weak memories" so that he/she doesn't need to sleep! Our first order of business will be to devise a method that will erase the person's memory of visiting us at all! Our slogan will be, "Only the strong survive!"
I've visited the movie theatre once in the past 6 months, I have rented zero DVDs during that time period and I haven't bought a single movie on DVD either. I'll admit that I did buy a television show box set, though. I couldn't care less about the protection applied to media and content if I don't care about the content itself. I won't watch it with DRM and I won't watch it without because it's crap either way!
It's like locking monopoly money in a giant vault.