I can't talk about the US but in Australia there are plenty of places where you can get totally lost and never see anybody, but those places don't have water. In places which do have water you will encounter other people. One strategy which might work is to find a way to publicise pictures of the person you are looking for with an offer to split the prize with the people who find them. I think that would have a pretty good chance of success.
Several times recently when people have gone missing in the bush stories have surfaced from people who saw them "a couple of days ago" without knowing who they were and whether they were being looked for.
Ubuntu tries to bring up the interfaces over the USB device. SHR on the phone handles it okay. At the moment I have to manually mess around with the interface on ubuntu to get it working properly. It could be made transparent. Currently the only service I use is ssh. If you want to use USB Ethernet in place of USB mass storage the phone would have to provide services. Possibly an SMB server or similar.
My wife bought a macbook pro recently for her work and we connected our son's ipod touch to it. I found the user interface of itunes to be confounding and non-intuitive. I had to press buttons (and other UI elements) at random to find features like "synchronise with ipod". I am sure that if you use it a lot it all makes sense but if they want to accommodate new users I would suggest a total UI rethink.
All mp3 players seem to have some crappiness to them.
I suppose so. Mine cost 20 aussie bucks at a cheap appliance store. The ear phones I bought elsewhere to use with it cost more. It charges by USB and presents as a USB storage device. I transfer music to it by ye old drag and drop in gnome. The crap part is it won't play ogg.
If they do then you are lucky but you won't be lucky all the time. Consider the behaviour of Old Rednose. All things considered I would prefer to do without arbitrary powers being granted to individuals and fall back on real democracy.
But when I buy a new disk its about ten times bigger than the old one so I copy my old stuff across and most of it gets kept. Granted it was harder before we had standardised interfaces for storage and communications. The cloud may help as well.
You know, there is enough CO2 on Venus to give a good atmosphere to Mars, Ceres, our Moon and all four Galean moons of Jupiter. And Mercury now that I think about it.
But ebooks can be on the market for decades after they are written. Electronic book stores can hold millions of titles. The books never go out of stock and, while some will reduce in value, others will increase.
The other day I had an urge to buy a CD so I went out to the last place I bought CDs from and it wasn't there. In fact, none of the CD places I used to go to were there.
I have books at home which I have owned for 40 years and would love to own for another 40 but the fact is that they are falling to bits. An ebook (without DRM) would last a lot longer. And a good book reader would offset the loss of the physical media for me.
I noticed that pictures advertising the iPad always have the New York Times front and center. I think a deal has already been done between Apple and News Corp.
Even doing something like your name / word + some unique number + some random color is enough for a decent password. (caps on one side of the number)
Oh come on. That will never work for my mother. She is lucky if she can avoid losing the slip of paper her password is written on, even if the password is her birthday.
Yeah the Pak Protector was a good creation of Niven, but the 2001 style took so much criticism that I can't see anybody else doing it the same way. It could be a good horror film like Alien I suppose.
Governments work on a steady flow of funding. There is no way to deliver one thing in year one with ten years budget without making the guy who authorized it lose his job. Better to cut costs and use future budgets to fix the problem.
What, we've exhausted the marketability of the buzzword nano and have stepped it up to pico? Somehow I doubt that regular satellites mass 10^12 kilograms.
Small to the eXtreme!!!
The mass of the moon is 7.36 × 1022 kilograms so maybe 10^12 is normal for natural satellites.
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I can't talk about the US but in Australia there are plenty of places where you can get totally lost and never see anybody, but those places don't have water. In places which do have water you will encounter other people. One strategy which might work is to find a way to publicise pictures of the person you are looking for with an offer to split the prize with the people who find them. I think that would have a pretty good chance of success.
Several times recently when people have gone missing in the bush stories have surfaced from people who saw them "a couple of days ago" without knowing who they were and whether they were being looked for.
Ubuntu tries to bring up the interfaces over the USB device. SHR on the phone handles it okay. At the moment I have to manually mess around with the interface on ubuntu to get it working properly. It could be made transparent. Currently the only service I use is ssh. If you want to use USB Ethernet in place of USB mass storage the phone would have to provide services. Possibly an SMB server or similar.
My wife bought a macbook pro recently for her work and we connected our son's ipod touch to it. I found the user interface of itunes to be confounding and non-intuitive. I had to press buttons (and other UI elements) at random to find features like "synchronise with ipod". I am sure that if you use it a lot it all makes sense but if they want to accommodate new users I would suggest a total UI rethink.
All mp3 players seem to have some crappiness to them.
I suppose so. Mine cost 20 aussie bucks at a cheap appliance store. The ear phones I bought elsewhere to use with it cost more. It charges by USB and presents as a USB storage device. I transfer music to it by ye old drag and drop in gnome. The crap part is it won't play ogg.
"USB file transfer between OSes" protocol.
How about Ethernet over USB? The openmoko supports that.
Thats not the lord you are looking for.
If they do then you are lucky but you won't be lucky all the time. Consider the behaviour of Old Rednose. All things considered I would prefer to do without arbitrary powers being granted to individuals and fall back on real democracy.
But when I buy a new disk its about ten times bigger than the old one so I copy my old stuff across and most of it gets kept. Granted it was harder before we had standardised interfaces for storage and communications. The cloud may help as well.
Well thats entropy for you.
Ah thanks.
You know, there is enough CO2 on Venus to give a good atmosphere to Mars, Ceres, our Moon and all four Galean moons of Jupiter. And Mercury now that I think about it.
Well, in about a million years anyway.
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But ebooks can be on the market for decades after they are written. Electronic book stores can hold millions of titles. The books never go out of stock and, while some will reduce in value, others will increase.
The other day I had an urge to buy a CD so I went out to the last place I bought CDs from and it wasn't there. In fact, none of the CD places I used to go to were there.
I have books at home which I have owned for 40 years and would love to own for another 40 but the fact is that they are falling to bits. An ebook (without DRM) would last a lot longer. And a good book reader would offset the loss of the physical media for me.
I noticed that pictures advertising the iPad always have the New York Times front and center. I think a deal has already been done between Apple and News Corp.
Is it just me, or do the photos look like a big blob of yellows and grays?
Based on my experience, all planets look like that from space. And on the surface they all look like southern California.
Based on my experience of watching Doctor Who, Blakes 7, etc; all planets look like the quarry next to the BBC studios.
In other words, Windows doesn't suck - The users do.
The drivers license analogy is being used to shift some of the blame from the OS to its users.
"If the steering wheel stops responding at 70mph, simply turn the engine off and back on!"
You work for Toyota?
Even doing something like your name / word + some unique number + some random color is enough for a decent password. (caps on one side of the number)
Oh come on. That will never work for my mother. She is lucky if she can avoid losing the slip of paper her password is written on, even if the password is her birthday.
Are you allowed to post as AC?
Yes. There will be TV cameras in all offices.
Yeah the Pak Protector was a good creation of Niven, but the 2001 style took so much criticism that I can't see anybody else doing it the same way. It could be a good horror film like Alien I suppose.
Governments work on a steady flow of funding. There is no way to deliver one thing in year one with ten years budget without making the guy who authorized it lose his job. Better to cut costs and use future budgets to fix the problem.
What, we've exhausted the marketability of the buzzword nano and have stepped it up to pico? Somehow I doubt that regular satellites mass 10^12 kilograms.
Small to the eXtreme!!!
The mass of the moon is 7.36 × 1022 kilograms so maybe 10^12 is normal for natural satellites.