I think this will get much faster. Back in the day (late 1980's) before the era of digital copiers Xerox made a machine that was called the (i think) 5090 that could print a book (bound and all) at 90ppm. The thing was 20 feet long monster but it worked well enough that when I worked with a copy shop in the early 00's lots of small operations were paying quite a bit to keep them going. To the best of my knowledge no one has made anything like it in the digital-copier era. That is until today.
I think it would be cool if Mathew Broddrick turned into a Dr. Stephen Falken. But then again, I think it would be cooler if MGM didn't kick a dead horse.
um...And you can use OO.o and drop MS office, and you can load Linux and not use Windows, but.xls and.doc created in OO.o don't open well when I e-mail them to some one who uses MS Office (say my accountant or my mom) so if I want to have easy, smooth document portability I go ahead and use the Office/Windows. The same can be said about MP3 players and iTunes, I could buy Samsung MP3 player, but all the songs I purchased with iTunes won't work with it (without tweaking) so I'll just go out and buy another iPod. Apple and MS both like to lock customers in. All businesses do.
At one point I worked for a copier repair company (Dispatcher, accountant/bookkeeper, & some computer stuff). Each month I got calls from people who fell victim to one of two scams.
1st: Some one calls an office and says that copier supply cost will go up next month so stock up now. Then they charge you an arm and a leg for your order. (Most of the time toner and developer is covered under the service contract)
2nd: Some times, some one would call up and say that they don't like the new tech that we sent out. I would say "what tech, you don't have a call up on your machine?" then after a few minuets of back and forth they would realize that it was (a) for the other copy machine and not one from my company, or (b) some one was looking around the office without authorization. The scary thing is that this often happened at schools.
Later, at my next job, I nabbed some one pretending to be a copy 'service agent' at the front desk and fed them a line until they went away.
The moral of the story is be paranoid, ask for ID, make people sign in, never ever trust some one who just shows up and make sure all visitors are escorted at all times.
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Every time I read that I chuckle. I have owned several Fisher Space Pens over the past ten years and my wife owns one. The best thing about it is it fits next to my pocket knife in it's sheath, therefore I don't need to dig around in my pocket to find it...I'm sorry, this is turning into a Slashvertisment(tm).
Every time I think of pencils in space I chuckle. It might work, but I would not want to deal with bits of broken led in 0g, or even worse, sharpening in 0g.
Astronaut: Huston, we have a problem. The mission commander got led in his eye and we are all choking on dust from the sharpener.
Yeah, but what if....What if MS did get Sony! Sony the insurance company. Sony the personal electronics company. Sony the Media Giant. Sony the bank. Sony the stock broker. Sony the realy big R&D lab. I think that if it happned MS would choke trying to asamalate Sony, and then they would both eather die or become serously smaller players in the process.
You know, I thought I would never say this. Your right, this is great. The one MAJOR thing I did not like about Apple is that I can't change the hardware much. Back in high school I swore I would never own a Mac unless I could upgrade the CUP. With OSX and tweekable hardware Mac is looking more and more worthwhile.
My mom would think soap opera games are lame, but if some one came out with an "Antiques Road Show" or "Appraise It" she would buy a 360 in a heart beat. On the other hand, we do have a game like that, and you get to use real money on. We call it "E-Bay" and mom is plays that game all the time.
Puts on Troll Foil Hat and says...I think IBM isn't the only crazy player in this field, because businesses are trying to fix something with software that is broken on the human side of things.
Every job I have ever had has a pattern with IT: Our people aren't sharing information or documenting their work properly, lets spend X to upgrade our computers...Our people aren't sharing information or documenting their work properly, lets spend X2 to upgrade our computers...Our people aren't sharing information or documenting their work properly, lets spend X4 to upgrade our computers...and so on.
People need to start being more organized before any data-management software dose a bit of good.
I would rather use this to paint a Faraday cage inside the walls of my house. I know it would not be 100% effective, but it would be a great way to keep people out of my WLLAN.
I want to build a super computer called Grue. That way when it becomes the fastest computer in the world I can call IBM and say "All your super computers are about to be eaten by a Grue," and that would make me laugh.
You are right, I was being limited. It would have been better to say it sounds like Sony and Betamax, and we all know what happened with that. In reading my old post it sounds a bit like a troll.
The point I was trying to make is this: If every time the game doesn't go your way, you take your ball and go home the other kids stop playing with you. If you play nice with the other kids, more people like you and everything is more fun. And music players should be fun, right?
Then again, I can cite Microsoft, iPods, and all Apple products before OSX to prove my self wrong.
Sorry, I forgot to spell-check that post. I'm just extremely dyslexic. When some one bothers me about my spelling I just tell them that Math was my first language and see if they get it. (You see many people who are very dyslexic are very good at abstract math...it's a joke...never mind)
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I think this will get much faster. Back in the day (late 1980's) before the era of digital copiers Xerox made a machine that was called the (i think) 5090 that could print a book (bound and all) at 90ppm. The thing was 20 feet long monster but it worked well enough that when I worked with a copy shop in the early 00's lots of small operations were paying quite a bit to keep them going. To the best of my knowledge no one has made anything like it in the digital-copier era. That is until today.
I think it would be cool if Mathew Broddrick turned into a Dr. Stephen Falken. But then again, I think it would be cooler if MGM didn't kick a dead horse.
That's why I use oo.o and save my more important documents in RTF or PDF format. ;)
um...And you can use OO.o and drop MS office, and you can load Linux and not use Windows, but .xls and .doc created in OO.o don't open well when I e-mail them to some one who uses MS Office (say my accountant or my mom) so if I want to have easy, smooth document portability I go ahead and use the Office/Windows. The same can be said about MP3 players and iTunes, I could buy Samsung MP3 player, but all the songs I purchased with iTunes won't work with it (without tweaking) so I'll just go out and buy another iPod. Apple and MS both like to lock customers in. All businesses do.
1st: Some one calls an office and says that copier supply cost will go up next month so stock up now. Then they charge you an arm and a leg for your order. (Most of the time toner and developer is covered under the service contract)
2nd: Some times, some one would call up and say that they don't like the new tech that we sent out. I would say "what tech, you don't have a call up on your machine?" then after a few minuets of back and forth they would realize that it was (a) for the other copy machine and not one from my company, or (b) some one was looking around the office without authorization. The scary thing is that this often happened at schools.
Later, at my next job, I nabbed some one pretending to be a copy 'service agent' at the front desk and fed them a line until they went away.
The moral of the story is be paranoid, ask for ID, make people sign in, never ever trust some one who just shows up and make sure all visitors are escorted at all times.
Every time I read that I chuckle. I have owned several Fisher Space Pens over the past ten years and my wife owns one. The best thing about it is it fits next to my pocket knife in it's sheath, therefore I don't need to dig around in my pocket to find it...I'm sorry, this is turning into a Slashvertisment(tm).
Every time I think of pencils in space I chuckle. It might work, but I would not want to deal with bits of broken led in 0g, or even worse, sharpening in 0g.
Astronaut: Huston, we have a problem. The mission commander got led in his eye and we are all choking on dust from the sharpener.
Yeah, but what if....What if MS did get Sony! Sony the insurance company. Sony the personal electronics company. Sony the Media Giant. Sony the bank. Sony the stock broker. Sony the realy big R&D lab. I think that if it happned MS would choke trying to asamalate Sony, and then they would both eather die or become serously smaller players in the process.
Ug, dyslixia + Lack of sleep = wierd post.
You know, I thought I would never say this. Your right, this is great. The one MAJOR thing I did not like about Apple is that I can't change the hardware much. Back in high school I swore I would never own a Mac unless I could upgrade the CUP. With OSX and tweekable hardware Mac is looking more and more worthwhile.
...So they won't see it until 2025? But the rest of the world will see it in 2023?
My mom would think soap opera games are lame, but if some one came out with an "Antiques Road Show" or "Appraise It" she would buy a 360 in a heart beat. On the other hand, we do have a game like that, and you get to use real money on. We call it "E-Bay" and mom is plays that game all the time.
Too late. It stared before the GTA game hit the market.
Every job I have ever had has a pattern with IT: Our people aren't sharing information or documenting their work properly, lets spend X to upgrade our computers...Our people aren't sharing information or documenting their work properly, lets spend X2 to upgrade our computers...Our people aren't sharing information or documenting their work properly, lets spend X4 to upgrade our computers...and so on.
People need to start being more organized before any data-management software dose a bit of good.
Wow, I was thinking that when I poasted. Do you work for the NSA?
I would rather use this to paint a Faraday cage inside the walls of my house. I know it would not be 100% effective, but it would be a great way to keep people out of my WLLAN.
I want to build a super computer called Grue. That way when it becomes the fastest computer in the world I can call IBM and say "All your super computers are about to be eaten by a Grue," and that would make me laugh.
But digital avatar /. tee shirts are meant to be free.
Think about it, Borg nano-bots. Be afraid.
The point I was trying to make is this: If every time the game doesn't go your way, you take your ball and go home the other kids stop playing with you. If you play nice with the other kids, more people like you and everything is more fun. And music players should be fun, right?
Then again, I can cite Microsoft, iPods, and all Apple products before OSX to prove my self wrong.
Sounds like Sony and Blu-Ray.
I'm very relaxed. After all, I've been in this bath for almost...how long have I been here?
They told me it was some sort of a plague or something...Or was it that the sun was going to go nova...
"Volume"? Is that the dial that makes things louder?
Open the door or I will count to ten....
Sorry, I forgot to spell-check that post. I'm just extremely dyslexic. When some one bothers me about my spelling I just tell them that Math was my first language and see if they get it. (You see many people who are very dyslexic are very good at abstract math...it's a joke...never mind)